Black people Quote by Simone Missick

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

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

— Jessica Williams

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

— Constance Baker Motley

When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over…

— Clint Smith

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

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

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

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

— Marc Lamont Hill

While as black people we've paid for our right to be in this country many, many times over, I still can't help but feel…

— Clive Lewis