Black Quote by Toni Morrison

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with…

— Noam Chomsky

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

— Kenya Barris

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count…

— Viola Davis

Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be…

— Michelle Alexander

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was.…

— Daley Thompson

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my…

— Laverne Cox

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white…

— Jimmy Carter

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get…

— Barack Obama

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in…

— Shelby Steele

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

— Logic

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi