African americans Quote by Alice Walker

“I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.”

— Anthony Ryan

“She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.”

— Sandra Kitt

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to…

— Barack Obama

“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it…

— Bonnie Greer

“I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Beware of the plot and deception of those whom simply make the white black and make the black white.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

— Maya Angelou

“The collective, orchestrated fury of Black women can move the whole world.”

— Brittney Cooper

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so…

— Susan B. Anthony

“A cloud of white death veiled in black…”

— Jean M. Grant

“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles, as Du…

— Ibram X. Kendi