Black Quote by Audre Lorde

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member…

— Giancarlo Esposito

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician.…

— Gil Scott-Heron

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her…

— Bonnie Greer

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these…

— Ken Follett

“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”

— Lucille Clifton

“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

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan