Deep Quote by Rob Morgan

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like…

— Arthur Ashe

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

“With boarding passes in hand Adeline led her children, each carrying a small suitcase, up the long gangway onto the Dominion Monarch, which would…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of our victimization,…

— Shelby Steele

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

— Deval Patrick

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

— Kathryn Stockett

For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show…

— Kehinde Wiley

If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in…

— Jim Goad

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my…

— Laverne Cox

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

— Toni Morrison