Example Quote by Rita Williams-Garcia

“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

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!”

— Stacy-Deanne

“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

“We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were…

— Nina LaCour

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”

— Malcolm X

“I hope some cool-headed white men will make the Negroes save the rice for us. It is so much needed. They say it might…

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and…

— James Baldwin

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

“How could the people around me not see that I’d been spending my day in nineteenth-century Kansas, or in the pit of a giant…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

“What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed? That they would chant your…

— Jean-Paul Sartre