Black Quote by Muhammad Ali

“That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given…

— Rosa Parks

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now,…

— Muhammad Ali

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who…

— Spike Lee

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation…

— George Orwell

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

— Henry Giroux

“Until very recent times, few black Americans have regarded the African connection as a major theme in their lives. David Walker, in his 1829…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought…

— Malcolm X

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president…

— Jordan Peele

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and…

— Malcolm X

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone