Black people Quote by Michelle Alexander

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race…

— Michelle Alexander

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with…

— Noam Chomsky

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.

— Issa Rae

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning…

— Malcolm X

Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by the media,…

— Kamanda Ndama

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi