Mental slavery Quote by Colin Grant

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and…

— James Baldwin

“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

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

“I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street.…

— Lena Horne

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry

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

— Angie Thomas