Quote by Richard Wright

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

“There was something lacking in these ofay places of amusement or else there was something present that one didn’t find in the black-and-tan resorts…

— George S. Schuyler

“It was all very pleasant and balmy, supremely beautiful and languid, if you were white, were rich, and turned a blind eye to the…

— Ron Chernow

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Mary Shelley

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud,…

— James Baldwin

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair.…

— Jenny Han

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie