Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Only the poorest of African people did not wear an upper garment, but this small number became representative in the European mind.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.”

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Angie Thomas

“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors…

— Frederick Douglass

“in ethnic crossings, the negro strikingly displays his prepotency, for black blood, once entering a human stock, seems never really bred out again. Negro”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose

“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.”

— Malcolm X

“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

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead