Black people Quote by Phoebe Robinson

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way - who would like to have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out…

— Anonymous

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

— Baron Vaughn

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

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

“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that…

— James Baldwin

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

I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they…

— Morgan Parker