African american Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery.…

— Herman Cain

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this…

— Yvette Clarke

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of…

— Isabel Wilkerson

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

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

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an…

— Dennis Prager

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack

The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going? We have…

— John Henrik Clarke