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If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?
— David Horowitz
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.
— Oprah Winfrey
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
— DaShanne Stokes
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
— Herman Cain
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
— Karl Marx
I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
— Muhammad Ali
Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.
— Frankie Boyle
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
The Superior Power in Black America is a movement.
— Darrell Daro Freeman Sr.
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
— Cornel West
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
— Coretta Scott King
One must learn how to be black in America.
— Henry Louis Gates
Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
— Kathleen Sebelius
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
— Stephen Carter
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
— James A. Baldwin
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
— Michael Eric Dyson
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
— August Wilson
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
— George Lopez
As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.
— Shawn Amos
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
— Henry Louis Gates
Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?
— Red Buttons
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
— Wale
In America, black is a country.
— Amiri Baraka
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
— Juan Williams
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
— Muhammad Ali
Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
— Audre Lorde
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
— Frances M. Beal
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
— James McBride
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
— Emma Goldman
J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
— Bernice L. McFadden
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We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.
— Fred Williamson
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'
— George Tillman Jr.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
— Angela Y. Davis
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
— The Prophet Of Life
This so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
— James Weldon Johnson
Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.
— Kathy McClary
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.
— Victor LaValle
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
— Rudy Giuliani
Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.
— The Prophet Of Life
This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
— June Jordan
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
— Randall Robinson
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
— The Prophet Of Life
