298 Quotes About Black-lives-matter

Let me tell you here and now as a black person, we don't expect charity, we just expect the trust and dignity, to which the white person is entitled in this world by default.

It was just the wrong race at the wrong time.

Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.

If a man, woman, or child of color dies in this dizzying world of theirs, trust that OUR reincarnation wouldn't come in the form of no goddamn tree. We would be buried as cannabis. A beautiful people with the perfect hue, doomed to be routinely smoked by those with seeming unfettered impunity, the...

Slavery never ended it just evolved.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of slavery--skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment.

You have no idea how sickening and disgusting I feel talking about racism. It is never easy for one with a distinct mind who look at humanity beyond color, and sees the human race as one family and then having to stand in between or take sides in races for superiority. It is difficult for me talking about, because it really makes me sick.