Conversation Quote by Patrisse Cullors

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work…

— Angela Rye

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

— Chance The Rapper

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was…

— John Conyers

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides…

— Kurt Sutter

The violence against unarmed Black people - names we know, and names we don't know - must end.

— Mike Espy

My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She was a…

— Mazie Hirono

Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. It's…

— Shaun King

Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but…

— Pramila Jayapal

There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge.…

— Kelela

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head.…

— Haile Gerima

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

— Patrisse Cullors

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa