Great Quote by Amiri Baraka

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

— Bill Ayers

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one…

— John Howard Griffin

“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the black students…

— Roxane Gay

“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the…

— James Heckman

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

— Junot Diaz

“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty…

— Nenia Campbell

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build…

— Booker T. Washington

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human…

— Jim Brown

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson