Administration Quote by Tavis Smiley

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at…

— Nina Simone

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic…

— Ishmael Reed

We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about…

— Pharrell Williams

Now I know there are people out there who will say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was the end of…

— Mellody Hobson

The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium.

— Amy Wax

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

— Nat Hentoff

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

— Donna Brazile

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

— Patrisse Cullors

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is…

— Ed Smith

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one…

— Randall Robinson

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

— Rush Limbaugh