Black people Quote by bell hooks

“Black Beauty is not acknowledged, affirmed, or celebrated unless it is showcased on a non-Black body. We are the blueprint they publicly denounce and…

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men…

— James Baldwin

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we…

— Langston Hughes

“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the…

— James Baldwin

We is black people.

— Wiz Khalifa

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for…

— Mara Brock Akil

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.”

— Ralph Ramovha

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly…

— Opal Tometi