African americans Quote by Carlos Bulosan

“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took the blame. I felt ashamed. But it was another lesson: the persecuted were always the first victims of misunderstanding.” quote by Carlos Bulosan — Download Open image

““We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took the blame. I felt ashamed. But it was another lesson: the persecuted were always the first victims of misunderstanding.””

Carlos Bulosan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings)

African americans Blacks Blame Dishonesty Fault Honesty Misunderstanding Money Prejudice Racism

More by Carlos Bulosan

“I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California … I feel like a criminal running…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“We do not take democracy for granted. We feel it grow in our working together—many millions of us working toward a common purpose. If…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering would be…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.”

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“We march on, though sometimes strange moods fill our children. Our march toward security and peace is the march of freedom—the freedom that we…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“I remembered all my years in the Philippines, my father fighting for his inherited land, my mother selling boggoong to the impoverished peasants. I…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“ The human heart is bigger than the world , I said to myself.”

Carlos Bulosan

Image

Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

“We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes…

Carlos Bulosan

Image

Explore all 18 Carlos Bulosan quotes

More African americans quotes

I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial…

Jonathan Capehart

Image

It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,…

Michael Emerson

Image

“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly half of…

Ian Haney López

Image

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

Tim Wise

Image

“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how people categorize…

Wendy Griswold

Image

“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette…

Angie Thomas

Image

African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will…

David Beckmann

Image

The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as…

Michelle Alexander

Image

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then…

Michelle Alexander