#black

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#bottom #huge #sea #surprise

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#i #i see #only #people #see

I am not a black artist, I am an artist. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#artist #black #i #i am

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side. ↗

— Bob Marley

#god #men #music #side #men

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. ↗

— Steven Biko

#blacks #human #inferior #made #must

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ↗

— Steven Biko

#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

Black man, you are on your own. ↗

— Steven Biko

#man #own #you #your

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. ↗

— Angela Davis

#black #certain #class #developed #division

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever. ↗

— Larry Bird

#forever #game #man #will