Black Quote by Dick Gregory

My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were…

— Dick Gregory

If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.

— Eddie Griffin

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to…

— Mike Espy

“When a congressional committee reported in February on the Mississippi bloodshed, it concluded that the nation had arrived at a crossroads and “must either…

— Ron Chernow

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We're afraid of 'crazy' White people.

— Jonathan Capehart

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I have never had a fear of white people.

— Ron Stallworth

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a dress in…

— Mike Espy

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

— Oprah Winfrey