Black Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

— Willie Parker

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to…

— Ricky Whittle

“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The…

— James Baldwin

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life,…

— Coretta Scott King

“We weren’t living the way we wanted because we weren’t making the choices it required. Like so many in our generation of thirtysomething parents,…

— Tsh Oxenreider

“It was unfair that you had to decide how to spend your life before you’d been out in the world and seen what the…

— Chelsea Sedoti

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most…

— Doreen Virtue

“Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is…

— Nathaniel Branden

“I would not have put it this way in those days, but because I was born a woman, I could never become an adult.…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of…

— Sue Monk Kidd