White people Quote by Colson Whitehead

“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

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

— Frantz Faron

“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

“I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I…

— Manu Herbstein

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

— Angie Thomas

“He had one room above a thrift store. He had a trunk of books by Ayn Rand. He was short-sighted and reclusive, resisting pleas…

— Alan Moore

“Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.”

— Euripides

“The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is deprived of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“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

“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.”

— Richard Puz

“And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is…

— Alan Paton