Civil war Quote by Nancy B. Brewer

“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare,…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“in ethnic crossings, the negro strikingly displays his prepotency, for black blood, once entering a human stock, seems never really bred out again. Negro”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”

— Malcolm X

“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard,…

— Toni Morrison

“Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of…

— John Kennedy Toole

“The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together…

— Nicholson Baker

“Unable to farm the area where they now lived, many turned to logging and working in small sawmills. Some men raised cattle and became…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was…

— Richard Wright

“Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their…

— Kendare Blake

“The story played out in virtually every northern city—migrants sealed off in overcrowded colonies that would become the foundation for ghettos that would persist…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized and corrupted by the pests of a bad company. Spray away bad companies and you will…

— israelmore ayivor

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

— Cab Calloway