Black boy Quote by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

“There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in…

— Jidenna

“...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay…

— Tayari Jones

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

— Angie Thomas

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

“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

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“A free black walks different than a slave,” he said. “White people recognize it immediately, even if they don’t know it. Walks different, talks…

— Colson Whitehead

“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to…

— Lance Crouther

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her…

— Bonnie Greer

“African Americans, like other groups, have always tried to translate upward class mobility into geographic mobility, but remain physically and psychically close to the…

— Mary Pattillo

Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives…

— Lena Waithe

“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.”

— Malcolm X