A child born to a Black mother in a state like…

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

— Mary Frances Berry

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger,…

— Wentworth Miller

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

— Stromae

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he…

— Stokely Carmichael

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the…

— Sojourner Truth

“White people must be seen, not heard (Sonnet 2913) In matters of human rights, white people must be seen, not heard; In matters of…

— Abhijit Naskar

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

— Roger Brooke Taney

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just…

— Israel Broussard

“She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of…

— Richard Peck

“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

— William Faulkner