Blacks Quote by Chancellor Williams

“For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints.”

— Chancellor Williams

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

“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

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“There is nothing comparable when to comes to the black man. He has no culture, no civilization, and no long historical past.”

— Frantz Faron

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

“Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with,…

— Sun Yung Shin

“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A”

— Jodi Picoult

“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was…

— Chancellor Williams

“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot talk about…

— Jesmyn Ward