Black Quote by Wanda Sykes

“Whites don't know a goddamned thing about what's gone wrong here. They say 'Detroit had this, Detroit had that… But economic power is still…

— Arthur L. Johnson

I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I come from?'…

— Linda Johnson Rice

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

— Michael Eric Dyson

When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic…

— Lena Waithe

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just…

— James McBride

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget…

— Esther Rolle

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries"…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man…

— Dick Gregory

I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack