Black Quote by Paul Beatty

I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest…

— Claudia Rankine

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black…

— Ray Stannard Baker

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not…

— Baratunde R. Thurston

“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

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal…

— Justin Simien

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination.…

— June Jordan

I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have.…

— Lena Waithe

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its…

— Francis James Grimke

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson