“Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.” WorldGrowsBlackWhiteRaceGrowing UpMembersNeighborhoodLicenseAll Black Author:Sarah Silverman
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesPersonsFactsHappensNightBlackWalksOur LivesStreetsHonestConclusionBeing HonestNeighborhoodBlack Person Author:Assata Shakur
“We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.” PeopleNeedsFunnyJobsBlackResponsibilitySafeFolksLike MeNeighborhoodEducateTaking ResponsibilityDon't Like Me Author:Charles Evers
“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.” IfsMenWorldChildrenReasonEnoughFeltBlackSimpleWhiteWalksCommonPracticeThreatMy ChildrenNeighborhoodShoppingAdorable Author:Gerald Early
“I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.” YearsSchoolBlackListeningGrewGrew UpHip HopHipsHopsNeighborhoodJust BeingTeenageBeing MyselfTeenage Years Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.” FeelsWholeSchoolBlackWhiteMiddleLuckyHigh SchoolTownsNeighborhoodBlack And WhiteHispanicSo LuckyDenver Author:Bill Frisell
“I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.” PeopleShowsHumorRealityWould BeFunnyBlackWhiteFourNeighborhoodHuntsReality ShowsCrackers Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.” MenWantedBlackStreetsColorPerspectiveNeighborhoodHarassmentStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh