Black Quote by John Henrik Clarke

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

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

— Ludacris

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke

Let's stop all of this foolishness and come together as a people or we will deserve the chastisement of God that is about to…

— Louis Farrakhan

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

— Cornel West

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

— Frances M. Beal

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget…

— Esther Rolle

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted…

— Toyin Odutola

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke