Black people Quote by Angie Thomas

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

“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

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson