Life Quote by Maya Angelou

“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

“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and…

— James Baldwin

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

“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

“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

“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

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré

“I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street.…

— Lena Horne

“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

“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

“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

“They wore their professional clothes like armor. They wielded their work like weapons, warding off the presumption of inferiority because they were Negro or…

— Margot Lee Shetterly