Black Quote by Toni Morrison

In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean, challenging the…

— Jason Johnson

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

— Randall Robinson

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

— Cynthia McKinney

Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their…

— Jonathan Capehart

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals.…

— James Forman, Jr

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

— Ted Wheeler

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over…

— John Kani

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

— Stokely Carmichael

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr