Black women Quote by Stephen King

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid…

— Claudette Colvin

“San Franciscans would have sworn on the Golden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their air-conditioned city. But they would…

— Maya Angelou

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,…

— W. Kamau Bell

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said…

— John Lewis

“The cops got out of the car and came straight towards me. My first thought was, How hypocritical… They head straight for the kid…

— Bella Shadow

“This is the time for black people to stand and be counted.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“I remember it was a quiet, heat-hushed evening. Walking with Mrs. McDonald up a dusty, unpaved road toward her modest home, I asked, "Where…

— Derrick Bell

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after…

— Maya Angelou

“Holy fuck. What a buncha stupid white boys. Why don't they just invite the whole fucking police force into the bar? Avery this has…

— H.M. Ward

“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took…

— Carlos Bulosan

“We said it was for art's sake. we said the more people who knew, the more chance the cops'd pick us up. We said…

— Cath Crowley

“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you…

— Una LaMarche