Barriers Quote by Nat King Cole

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively…

— Malcolm X

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified…

— Fredi Washington

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they…

— Malcolm X

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you…

— Robert E. Lee

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

— Kevin Grevioux

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

— Lamman Rucker

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams