African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

“This complex and contradictory relation to inequality largely persists in the United States to this day: on the one hand this is a country…

— Thomas Piketty

If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make…

— Barack Obama

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

(on African poverty) We have everything. They have nothing. I feel so moved and so saddened, but also hopeful that we can all help…

— Leona Lewis

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty'…

— J. D. Vance

African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will…

— David Beckmann

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

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will…

— Maxine Waters

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States.…

— Martin Luther