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Quotes About Equality

Certainly, we are all on the shoulders of those who fought for our country. But the first peoples of this land justifiably might feel bitterness.
~ John Densmore
I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
~ Mike Tyson
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
~ bell hooks
Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.
~ Edwin Moses
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
~ Tavis Smiley
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
~ Spike Lee
We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
~ Valerie Simpson
Binaries, whether it's 'man' or 'woman,' or 'black' and 'white,' were created to separate us. So without binary, there is only 'us,' which makes us all equal.
~ Asia Kate Dillon
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors, black and white.
~ Noma Dumezweni
The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
~ Nate Parker
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
~ Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.
~ Goldlink
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
~ William Barr
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
~ Don Cornelius
What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay.
~ John Lewis
Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.
~ David Bryan
Everybody in the working class is important, whether you're black or white and that's what I want them to feel and know from Our Revolution.
~ Nina Turner
I try to emulate the Lynn Swanns, and the John Jeffersons and the fact they're black or white has nothing to do with it.
~ Cris Collinsworth
Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old.
~ Jesse Armstrong
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
~ Jesse Williams
So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.
~ Angie Thomas
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
~ Constance Baker Motley