Blackness Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“if God hadn’t wanted the blacks to work for us, then he wouldn’t have created them.”

— Sarah Lark

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty…

— Nicole Krauss

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about…

— Tony Horwitz

“It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would…

— Thomas Sowell

“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their…

— Linda Leigh Hargrove

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one…

— Oscar Wilde

“I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me,…

— Elaine Dundy

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie