American Quote by Aldis Hodge

There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of us that…

— Nia DaCosta

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long…

— Lonnie Bunch

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people…

— Beth Macy

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The…

— Rumaan Alam

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our…

— Erykah Badu

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the…

— Michelle Singletary