Black Quote by Kerry James Marshall

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

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they…

— Albert Einstein

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of…

— John Henrik Clarke

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do,” said Valmorain. “Just as whites are enslaving each…

— Isabel Allende

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites…

— Thomas Sowell

“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death…

— David Bradley

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to…

— John Henrik Clarke

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

— William Barr

“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

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker