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“Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.”

People Want Individual Black Rights Movement Protect Slavery Civil Rights Minorities Treatment Black People Colonialism Apologizing Imperialism Civil Rights Movement

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”

People Sides Black Position Black People Oppressed Comedic

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.”

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Author:W. Kamau Bell

“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.”

People Way Hard Black White Race Break Audience Expected Comedian Black People Linear Break Through

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.”

People Black Entertainment Black People Sugar Cotton Plantations

Author:Haile Gerima

“The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.”

“I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.”

People World Care Black White Building Slavery Black People I Care Monument

Author:Haile Gerima

“Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.”

People Knows Black Prison Black People

Author:Terry McMillan

“The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.”

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Author:Richard Benjamin

“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.”

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Author:Danny Glover

“Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”

People Men America Black White Existence Focus Groups Identity Black People Black Women

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.”

People Thinking Needs Self Black Self Esteem Esteem Black People

Author:Bell Hooks

“I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”

People Goal Black Movement Males Oppression Primaries Racist Black People Establishment Patriarchy All Black Black Males

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Black people use body lotion every single day.”

People Use Body Black Black People Lotion

Author:Mellody Hobson

“My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.”

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Author:Questlove

“For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.”

People Way Reason Black Groups Black People Dislike Misconstrued

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?”

People Ifs Black White Week Why Not Black People

Author:Sister Souljah

“Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'”

People Want Giving Black Roots Temptation Hey Damn Black People Detroit Don't Give A Damn Motherland Damn You

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.”

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Author:Jarome Iginla

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