304 Quotes About African-americans

There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated

A whole people's tumble into raw, untested century began with one man, penning his serpentine sojourn up from slavery--I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but ... I must have been born somewhere and at some time. He began as another baby shoved directly into the wrong air.

Maybe you'll be better treated next time.""Not as long as I am black," said Simple."You look at everything, I regret to say, in terms of black and white.""So does the Law," said Simple.

There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit.

I feel ashamed that black people are both the agents and the victims of this chaos, and I don't want to be thought of like that. But I'm also ashamed of myself for thinking I'm somehow better. The shame I feel in my guts, pulsing, spiraling; but also everything feels very far away. I'm black, but my black is different from that of those rioters on TV.

The human race comes from a black mother.

When we talk about the history of America, Black history is American history.

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In fact, just for the sake of understanding, if we measure the amount of blood and sweat that actually went into the making of America, we’d find that the contributions of the blacks far outweigh the contributions of the whites!