Beloved Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

— Cornel West

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

— Maverick Carter

Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a…

— Wanda Sykes

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic…

— John McWhorter

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I…

— Spike Lee

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.

— Donald Trump

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was…

— Ryan Gosling

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

— Jill Stein

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that…

— bell hooks

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given…

— Misty Copeland