Black Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported…

— Kerry James Marshall

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate…

— John Henrik Clarke

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be.…

— Colson Whitehead

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

— Doug Stanhope

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing,…

— Che Guevara

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

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois