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“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

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

— Maya Angelou

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

“To make his way, the Negro must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. He must gear himself to hard work all the way. He can…

— Anonymous

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland