African american Quote by Richard Wright Download Open image ““The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.”” — Richard Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare African american American Native son Race Religion Us
“it’s no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country’s culture as a whole.” — Robert P. Jones Copy Share Image
“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
“Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner and Douglass… — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Everyone of any import, from Jesus to George Washington, was white.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Religion will not get us where we need to go. It just goes so far, and then we’re on our own toward the open… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image