Black Quote by Solomon Burke

The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the…

— Louis O. Kelso

“This is a historically black community,” said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. “I’d like it to stay that way.”127”

— Jared Taylor

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

— Ross Perot

I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.

— Tom Douglas

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

— Rod Coronado

KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they…

— Bill Vaughan

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we…

— S. Truett Cathy

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but…

— Wendell Berry

“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black families were…

— Matthew Desmond

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve,…

— Dan Levitan

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing,…

— John Prescott