America Quote by Maxine Waters

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color.

— Maxine Waters

To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral…

— Clint Smith

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

— Danny Glover

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and…

— Michelle Alexander

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off…

— Barack Obama

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I…

— Killer Mike

We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start…

— Irvine Welsh

Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't…

— Carl Hart

The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the…

— Barack Obama

Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that and are…

— The D.O.C