Black boy Quote by Maya Angelou

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The root of the black man’s hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them out of…

— James Baldwin

“And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is…

— Alan Paton

“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

“Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”

— Matthew Desmond

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

“People wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing,…

— John Green

“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright

“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