African american Quote by Timothy B. Tyson

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

“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

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could reconcile white…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who…

— John Henrik Clarke

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and…

— Danny K. Davis

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“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

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for the day…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates