Quote by Alice Walker

“I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then…

— William Faulkner

“They'd never seen the likes of this, but they'd leave their mark on this new land, as surely as those famous souls at Jamestown,…

— Colson Whitehead

“So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“We talked about our families, about his father. He said: He old—a old head. And I knew what he meant without him having to…

— Jesmyn Ward

“And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh --…

— Anne Lamott

“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry…

— Adam Makos

“Beloved, there is something black folk fear, whether you can see it or not, whether some of us black folk will say it or…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d said that…

— Richard Wright

“That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's…

— Bebe Moore Campbell

“quite the right way to begin a book. And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? I don't quite know, and yet…

— H. Rider Haggard

“That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It…

— Jonathan Odell

“As I listen to their jive, I try to find my way around the street mind, the black man's mind. Feeling left out, like…

— Jennifer Lee