D'Angelo Quotes

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black Americans face.

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

We have one Black man as President; we have one million Black men in prison.

You’ve got a reputation and it stinks….Since Detroit is more than 80 percent Black, it can’t be the white man’s fault. It’s not what he’s doing to you. It’s what you’re not doing.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

We have too many Black men in jail waiting for justice and too many Black women in church waiting for Jesus.

Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex,

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.

Democrats don't understand what is wrong in the black community or how to fix it. If they do, they don't care.

The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium.

African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.