#blacks

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#blacks #decided #difficulties #experience #faced

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks. ↗

— Larry Doby

#being #blacks #bring #going #hard

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#because #been #blacks #doing #history

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ↗

— David Horowitz

#anywhere #black #blacks #earth #efforts

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. ↗

— John Powell

#blacks #concentrated #likely #live #more

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#blacks #britain #canada #caribbean #iq

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#again #back #been #blacks #bus