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“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be…

— James Baldwin

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

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

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

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like…

— Maya Angelou

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

— Shelby Steele

It's understandable why a minority that was treated as badly as blacks in this country have been for so long would, when they finally…

— Bill Maher

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in…

— James A. Forbes

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

— William Julius Wilson

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like…

— Louis C. K

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

— Constance Baker Motley