Black Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

“Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outa you: have some sympathy fuh me. Put…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge…

— Sylvia Plath

“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t…

— Zadie Smith

“LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as…

— Sylvia Plath

I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities…

— Sitting Bull

“There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone…

— Philip Pullman

“But you are not listening, sapperment! great big she-fool that you are—sheep’s-head! Dummkopf! Donnerwetter! you are looking at the chimney-pots when Svengali talks! Look…

— George du Maurier

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what…

— William Shakespeare

I got a real dead loving here for you now, because I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my…

— Juanita

“You stop that,’ he said, in a voice which he did not recognise. ‘You stop that. You stop trying to kill me. It’s not…

— James Baldwin

“There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your ordinary mirage.…

— Margaret Atwood