Quote by Colson Whitehead

“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

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer permissible to hate blacks, but we can hate criminals.”

— Michelle Alexander

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The…

— Black Hawk

“Many in the white working class believe the worst about their society.”

— J.D. Vance

“It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different: it put you in a wonder.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or…

— Anonymous

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

“The white men have ways of doing you favors that can get you killed.” Crazy”

— Win Blevins

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or people he…

— Tom Cain