Grandmother Quote by Constance Baker Motley

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

— Isaac Wright Jr

I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is just three…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

— Adina Porter

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's…

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

— Nina Simone

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

— Angelina Grimke

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

— Cory Booker

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be.…

— Colson Whitehead

“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,”

— George R.R. Martin

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass