Black Quote by Nate Parker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Baron Vaughn

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with…

— Viola Davis

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

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that…

— Jesmyn Ward

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

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

— David Wilmot

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it.…

— Frantz Fanon

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show respect to…

— Jesse Lee Peterson