Black Lives – Quotes

I think one of

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces. Eugene Puryear

In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience. Eric Foner

Planned Parenthood has been

Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide. E.W. Jackson

If you understand the

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there’s no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America. Cory Booker

The first thing we

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There’s no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to … Read more

There are advances in

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They’re still associated with types, with comedy, but we’re in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues. … Read more

Black life is ambiguous,

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished. Charles Bartlett Johnson

The national conversation around

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy. Cathy O’Neil

That’s why Black Lives

That’s why Black Lives Matter thinks I’m so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important. Bethann Hardison

I talked to a

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known. Bernie Sanders