Black people Quote by JPEGMAFIA

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

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

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth…

— Harper Lee

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

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

— Henry Louis Gates

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The…

— Rumaan Alam

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

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always…

— Sterling K. Brown

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré

I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats…

— Joan Wallach Scott