Black race Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“Negroes were drafted, white men weren’t; the poor were hauled off to war, the rich weren’t; the stupid were shot at, the bright boys…

— James A. Michener

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“in ethnic crossings, the negro strikingly displays his prepotency, for black blood, once entering a human stock, seems never really bred out again. Negro”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“culturally conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural defenses.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely…

— Michael W. Twitty