Backlash Quote by Stanley Nelson Jr

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere… the black communities…

— Bobby Seale

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

— Ludacris

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate…

— John Henrik Clarke

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our…

— Erykah Badu

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself.…

— JPEGMAFIA

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters