Art Quote by Questlove

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

— Amine

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be…

— Ed Gordon

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

— Ann Demeulemeester

The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community…

— KiKi Layne