Black Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually…

— Isabel Wilkerson

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders…

— Roger Wilkins

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a…

— Joe Morton

In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person…

— Lenny Henry

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You…

— Daryl Davis

“History seemed to repeat itself. Just as the white elite had successfully driven a wedge between poor whites and blacks following Bacon's Rebellion by…

— Michelle Alexander

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black…

— Jesse White

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

— August Wilson

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted…

— Toyin Odutola