Aspiration Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

— Andre Holland

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

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

— James Earl Jones

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is a black…

— Paul Beatty

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

— Christopher Priest

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues…

— Rumaan Alam

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright