Black person Quote by Russell Rickford

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed…

— Malcolm X

“And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and…

— Toni Morrison

“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her…

— John Le Carre

“Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile…

— Eddie Lenihan

“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.”

— André Breton

“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 are strong Black Women. We may not want to be, but when life calls, we got no choice”

— Malebo Sephodi

“Islam is, in fact, the intimate link between the brown and black worlds.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.”

— Sandra Kitt

“The instruction was intended to assimilate Mollie into white society and transform her into what the authorities conceived of as the ideal woman.”

— David Grann

“I grew up thinking of her as our Elsie, not as someone else's mother. She was the black woman who had cleaned my parents'…

— Kristen Green