Black Quote by Steven Biko

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

— Harper Lee

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement…

— Angela Davis

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle…

— Angela Davis

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause…

— Louis Farrakhan

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass,…

— Henry Louis Gates

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.

— Stephen Glover

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means…

— Angela Davis

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves,…

— Trevante Rhodes