#black

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#black #black and white #i #know #landscapes

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#believe #black #black and white #color #i

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#am #backside #bigots #black #enjoying

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#children #get #i #know #letters

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#course #i #join #know #me

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. ↗

— Pam Grier

#black #character #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark