About Quote by Rosa Parks

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

Throughout my career and my life, I talk a lot about racism in this country, and if you're going to talk about it, then…

— W. Kamau Bell

There's so much that I learned about systemic racism, the history of racial injustice.

— Rick Carlisle

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“White people must learn how to listen to the experiences of people of color for racial healing and justice to happen.”

— Debby Irving

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks…

— Clare Vanderpool

I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974…

— Martin Luther King III

My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided…

— Patrisse Cullors

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

— Clarice Taylor

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

— Alice Mattison