African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

— Ann Coulter

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black…

— Barack Obama

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Obama's entire economic program is reparations.

— Rush Limbaugh

I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by…

— Julianne Malveaux

Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across…

— Hilary Beckles

“And there can be no conflict between the naming of whiteness and the naming of the degradation brought about by an unrestrained capitalism, by…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The conditions that we are suffering force us to address the real issues that affect the life and well-being of the majority of our…

— Louis Farrakhan

Once Africans realise we can just fight and get paid for it, we can do that and still provide for ourselves and our families…

— Kamaru Usman

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from…

— Kenneth Clark

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young