America Quote by John Oliver Killens

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were…

— James Baldwin

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of…

— Malcolm X

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person...

— Barack Obama

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

— W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never…

— Malcolm X

“Beloved, white racial grief erupts when you fear losing your dominance. You get mighty angry at our demand that you live up to the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans,…

— Dennis Prager

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

— Audre Lorde

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

— Terry McMillan