Alive Quote by Yaa Gyasi

“in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.”

— Yaa Gyasi

“A dead black man—nothing to bother about.”

— Henning Mankell

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of…

— Yaa Gyasi

“All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“There is nothing comparable when to comes to the black man. He has no culture, no civilization, and no long historical past.”

— Frantz Faron

“I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to…

— Victor Hugo

“Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with,…

— Sun Yung Shin

“People wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing,…

— John Green

“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

“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was…

— Colson Whitehead