African american Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

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

“Great Migration. It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century. It was vast. It was leaderless. It crept along so…

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the…

— Malcolm X

“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

I think it's very important to recognize that the challenge of migration, an increased level of migration, is not unique to the United States.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

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

“All told, perhaps the most significant measure of the Great Migration was the act of leaving itself, regardless of the individual outcome. Despite the…

— Vintage

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

— William Barr