Life Quote by Helen Macdonald

“The white man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but…

— Margaret Atwood

“My eyes have adjusted to the colorlessness of living in a country like this But brutal to give the prisoner a window And every…

— Abeer Abdullah

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“for the white man to share his blood with, or intrust his ideals to, brown, yellow, black, or red men. This is suicide pure…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.”

— Chief Seattle

“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“They began to care less about the way they looked, the way they dressed, the things they did; presently, one found them in twos…

— James Baldwin