304 Quotes About African-americans

There ain't nothing gets a Yankee madder than a smart colored person, of which I reckon they figured there was only one in the world, Mr. Douglass.

The Black child must learn early to allow laughter to fill his mouth or the million small cruelties he encounters will congeal and clog his throat.

Black Child, you are the walking-on-of-waterWithout the need of an approving master.You are in a beautiful language.You are what lies beyond this kingdomAnd the next and the next and fire. Fire, Black Child.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

It is my deepest desire to share the worlds of people we don’t often see or read about in media. With my writing I seek to introduce you to the worlds I’ve always known existed around me and within me.

Many Black People are Doctors, Lawyers, Footballers, Sailors, Investors, Inventors, Philanthropists, Poets, writers, and so on. Who then says Black lives don't matter?

Nobody notices, only you've known,you're not sick, not crazy,not angry, not sad--It's just this, you're injured.

Goddamn, so this is what it means to have a leaderYou despise, the racists said when the presidentWas black and I’ll be damned if I ain’t saying it too.Is this a mandate for whiteness, virility, sovereignty,Stupidity, an idiot’s threats & gangsta narcissisms threadingEvery shabby sentence his trumpet constructs?

Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again.