Black Quote by William Barr

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported…

— Kerry James Marshall

“PROGENY OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE The leaky little tubs which the sea devours are the granddaughters of those slave ships. Today’s slaves, though no…

— Eduardo Galeano

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end…

— Isabel Wilkerson

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

— Alex Haley

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time…

— Ayana Mathis

“To them I was first a Black, then a Black from another country, and then a person.”

— Maria Nhambu

“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves transported to…

— Christopher Lascelles

“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death…

— David Bradley

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they…

— Albert Einstein

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who…

— Henry Louis Gates