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“Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.”

People Done America Culture Black Class Racism Oppression Destroyed Black People

Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.”

Thinking Feels Problem America Black Interesting Roles Black Women Movie Making

Author:Aunjanue Ellis

“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?”

People Ifs America Culture Black Black People Appropriation Black Culture

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.”

People Men Long Hands America Black Community Lines Draws Destruction Racist One Man Trends Progression Halt Black Community

Book:Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

Source: Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

“I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.”

Wells Long Has Beens America Black Streets Long Time Tradition Hip Hop Hips Hops Sociology Pulse Black Music

Author:Quincy Jones

“Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.”

America Black England Independence Democratic France Indian Latin Progressive Republic Heritage Mexico Liberated Latin America Colony Barbaric Democratic Republic

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.”

People Thinking Knows Way Mean Persons Care America Black President Honor Racist Courageous President Obama Black Person

Author:Alice Walker

“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Men Years Stills Ideas America Black President Inspire Kings Shots Awe Forty Luther Balconies

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.”

People Men Long Country States America Black White Land Ten Black People White Man North America

Author:Muhammad Ali

“America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.”

People Kind Done America Black Pay Violence Trouble Crime Slave Killing All Kinds Destroyed Black People Earthquakes Lynching

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.”

Way Writing Made America Felt Black Term Differences Position Perspective Unique Aspect Filmmaker Superiority Lofty Subtlety

Author:Ruby Dee

“America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.”

Ifs Men Stills Country America Black White Common Common Man Best Country

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.”

Thinking Knows Needs Kind Play Seems America Past Order Black One Thing Connections Relation Historical Determine Who We Are Our Past

Author:August Wilson

“I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.”

Men Feels States America Black United United States Target United States Of America

Author:Wale

“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.”

People America Black Struggle Saws Rights Century Competition Black People Womens Rights 19th Century Rights In America

Author:Karen DeCrow