Black people Quote by M.K. Asante

Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know,…

— M. K. Asante

“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

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

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race…

— Michelle Alexander

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our own to…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke

When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black…

— Charlamagne Tha God

Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that -…

— Common

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 think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and…

— Zadie Smith

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else…

— Louis Sachar

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant