Equality Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“But in the world I was raised in, amid the countless media images I took in as a girl, I got this crazy notion…

— Diane Guerrero

“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“They each wore ill-fitting black suits and well-fitting black scowls.”

— Susan Dennard

“To make his way, the Negro must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. He must gear himself to hard work all the way. He can…

— Anonymous

“Negroes were drafted, white men weren’t; the poor were hauled off to war, the rich weren’t; the stupid were shot at, the bright boys…

— James A. Michener

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black biological inferiority…

— Ibram X. Kendi