African american Quote by Michelle Alexander

Black people have been working hard for decades.

— Cornel West

In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African Americans now…

— Mena Massoud

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

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

— Assata Shakur

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context…

— Angela Davis

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with…

— Rafael Cruz

With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Planters responded to labor demands and laborers’ unity by purchasing more African people and luring Whiteness away from Blackness.”

— Ibram X. Kendi