Black Quote by John Edgar Wideman

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense…

— Kwame Dawes

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to…

— Mike Espy

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the…

— J. August Richards

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Jerry Falwell

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a…

— Lauren Myracle

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and…

— Jaime Harrison

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers