Black Quote by Michael C Dawson

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

— Malcolm X

Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever…

— Malcolm X

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

— Shelby Steele

“The belief in the power of "institutional racism" allows black civil rights leaders to denounce America as a "racist" society, when it is the…

— David Horowitz

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

— H. Rap Brown

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

— Frances Fox Piven

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

— Malcolm X

I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often…

— Vijay Iyer

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I…

— Whitney M. Young

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

— Ad Reinhardt

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa