Life Quote by Ralph Ramovha

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

— Jesse Jackson

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

— Trey Songz

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

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go…

— Jackie Robinson

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude.…

— Shelby Steele

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele