The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation.... →
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a... →
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say... →
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the... →
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black... →
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded... →