African-american-literature Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

“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

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

“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

“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

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

— Isabel Wilkerson