Black Quote by Alice Walker

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

— Tyler Perry

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get…

— Julia Mavimbela

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can…

— Miriam Makeba

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“Is it possible to describe as a culture what may simply be, after all, a history of oppression? That is, is this history and…

— James Baldwin

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

— George C. Kimble

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

— Chris Tucker