African americans Quote by Percival Everett

“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white…

— James Baldwin

“The revolver was black and nearly new. I was afraid to even touch it, for in it lay all the whole difference between what…

— Elie Wiesel

“She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she…

— Jeane Westin

“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”

— Melissa McPhail

“My worst fear is that people will feel unheard, even if their opinions aren’t desirable. When people think of themselves as unheard, and their…

— Seth Daniel Parker

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I was afraid of maddened faces, of lanterns being shone in my eyes, of blind mindless rage. I was afraid of cold, of hunger,…

— Teffi

“And the truth was that he was not afraid of being seen for what he was. He was afraid of being seen as someone…

— Roshani Chokshi

“Everything frightens me, and it's well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it's kept me alive this long. The…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from…

— Cheryl Strayed

“What all men fear is indeed to be feared;”

— Lao Tzu

“I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about…

— Carson McCullers