Appalled Quote by John Singleton

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's…

— Ernest Gaines

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device.…

— Kerry James Marshall

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists,…

— James H. Cone

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

— James Earl Jones

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public…

— Stokely Carmichael

To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the…

— RaMell Ross

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a…

— James McBride

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing…

— Clint Smith

It makes white men uncomfortable that there aren't more stories about them because it somehow is perpetuating the idea that they aren't the center…

— Marielle Heller