The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. James A.Baldwin
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey. John Henrik Clarke
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.Nelson Mandela
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre. Michael Eric Dyson
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. Michael Eric Dyson
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.John Selden
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know? Jim Brown
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times. Bill Russell
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. Fuzzy Zoeller
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. Charles Barkley