Black Quote by Walter Dean Myers

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond…

— Ed Smith

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility…

— Shelby Steele

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated…

— Derrick Bell

Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by White people,…

— Louis Farrakhan

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson