Black people Quote by Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like…

— Louis C. K

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful…

— Alex Haley

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most certainly do…

— Phaedra Parks

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This…

— Kerry James Marshall

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the…

— Sarah Churchwell

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson