[God brought African slaves to America] so that their…

“it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know…

— Sanober Khan

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

— Hosea Williams

“There were African slaves in China from at least the seventh century CE, and, Wolf reports, “by 1119 most of the wealthy people of…

— David Christian

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other…

— Madison Smartt Bell

“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper Coast,” land…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“From the flourishing trade center of Zanzibar, whose leading trade items were ivory and African slaves, the Arabs began to conquer parts of coastal…

— Thomas Sowell

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves transported to…

— Christopher Lascelles

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every…

— Edward Ball

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift…

— Carlos Castaneda

“You'll be miserable your whole life if you fight who and what you are. But if you accept yourself, all parts of yourself, you'll…

— Alex Lux