African american Quote by Sterling K. Brown

O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response…

— Ezra Edelman

O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more…

— Ezra Edelman

There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look…

— Sterling K. Brown

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns…

— Angela Davis

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a…

— Sterling K. Brown

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He…

— Raoul Peck

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with…

— Chadwick Boseman

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers.…

— Jeffrey Rosen