Quote by Isabel Wilkerson Download Open image ““But black students were left on their own.”” — Isabel Wilkerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.” — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“But few black parents had any substantial contact with the school. Rist doubts their assessment would have been so positive had they been "really… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Breakaway students are moving (actually often wrenching themselves) away from where they were to where they can be. Some succeed. Others do not.” — Karen Gross Copy Share Image
“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.” — Tepilit Ole Saitoti Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen thousand men, women, and children gathered to watch eighteen-year-old Jesse Washington as he was burned alive in Waco, Texas, in May 1916. The… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I don’t see one white person in this block selling drugs. They got the nerve to be mad at the blue-eyed devil. You don’t… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have. — DANIEL… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
