Acquainted Quote by Herman E. Talmadge

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. Kindly in…

— 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

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

“...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay…

— Tayari Jones

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to…

— Carter G. Woodson

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing…

— Malcolm X

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

— Angie Thomas

“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

“But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”

— J.D. Vance

“The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the…

— John Howard Griffin