African american Quote by Roy L. Pickering Jr

“We talked about our families, about his father. He said: He old—a old head. And I knew what he meant without him having to…

— Jesmyn Ward

“And, don't you see, the terror of the position was not in being knocked on the head - though I had a very lively…

— Joseph Conrad

“As he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted at you to make…

— Jodie Picoult

“One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but i took it as a compliment.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was…

— William Faulkner

“Brian darling, I’m really not such an idiot that I don’t realize that if a man calls me a nigger it’s his fault the…

— Nella Larsen

“You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby, it’s never…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to…

— John Kennedy Toole

“He just stared blankly at the carnage and cried. A weak man. A man who couldn’t stand up for what he believed in because…

— Julian Lorr

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a…

— Jodi Picoult

“He despised the words leaving his mouth, hating the way they made him feel. Exposed. Open. By a girl who didn’t weigh more than…

— Alessandra Torre

“It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.”

— N. Scott Momaday