Chance Quote by Kerry James Marshall

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a…

— Matthew Desmond

I have been a stalwart advocate for the legacy of Charles White. I have said it so often, it could go without saying. I…

— Kerry James Marshall

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and…

— Edward P. Jones

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only…

— John Lewis

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a…

— James Thurber

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

— Andre Holland

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers