I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world.
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.
Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.
