Black history Quote by Janelle Gray

“Brown people rarely explain how anyone is related to anyone. You’re simply told that these people are your family and to treat them as…

— Scaachi Koul

“No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice.” “No offense taken,” I said. “I’m tempted to…

— Rick Riordan

“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap on the…

— Erin Merryn

“Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?'…

— Sterling K. Brown

“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“My mother was annoyed with me throughout their visit—ostensibly because I wasn’t being a good enough hostess to the cousins, but really because she…

— Claire Messud

“But the truth is, sometimes kids—and adults—seem to wait until their relatives are out of the room to go. It’s like they don’t want…

— Diane Chamberlain

“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six--uncles, brother, father,…

— Sheila Turnage