Candy corn Quote by Michael Ian Black

“watched Lewis carefully without seeming to look at him, as you do when you are boxing, and I do not think I had ever…

— Ernest Hemingway

“All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless…

— Carter G. Woodson

“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

“I buy what I think is a beautiful gift for Richard Pryor. It’s a pre-Civil War cigarette and match holder, with a small black…

— Jennifer Lee

“The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.”

— Ken Follett

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“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

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“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

“As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that…

— Frantz Fanon