Black-boys Quote by Nayyirah Waheed

“Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people,…

— Rebecca West

“I wept for my children and all black children who have been denied a knowledge of their heritage; I wept for all white children,…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“If I've learned anything, it's this: a mother's screams over the body of her murdered child sound the same, no matter if she is…

— Souad Mekhennet

“He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from…

— Maya Angelou

“Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?”

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism…

— Anthea Butler

“Children are remarkable creatures, hurtling through savage landscapes of sudden laughter and sharp heartbreaks.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.”

— Martin Amis

“It occurred to her one night that she was one of the vengeful monsters they were scared of: She had killed a white boy.…

— Colson Whitehead

“Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange…

— Victoria Aveyard

“One day, as My uncle Antonio was heading out to a cantina, I slipped a story I had written into his shirt pocket. It…

— José N. Harris

“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they…

— Cormac McCarthy