African americans Quote by Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.”

— Tepilit Ole Saitoti

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that moment, envious…

— Clint Smith

“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there…

— Carleen Brice

“Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with,…

— Sun Yung Shin

“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was…

— Chancellor Williams

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly,…

— Jared Taylor

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

— Angie Thomas

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright