Because Quote by Michael Jai White

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was…

— Gore Verbinski

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking…

— Walter Dean Myers

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents…

— Kenya Barris

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area…

— Curt Flood

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

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this,…

— Octavia E. Butler

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only…

— Jackie Robinson