304 Quotes About African-americans

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, "Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home." "Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

-Zora Neale Hurston

What much of Mules and Men demonstrates, to paraphrase Ralph Ellison, is that black Americans are not the creation of the white man.

-Robert Hemenway

We have to go." Billie looked up from her drink and said, "Speak for yourself. All I got to do is stay black and die.

-maya angelou

  • Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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    We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own. Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world.

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We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own. Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world.

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

We do not recognize the bodyOf Emmett Till. We do not knowThe boy’s name nor the soundOf his mother wailing. We haveNever heard a mother wailing.We do not know the historyOf this nation in ourselves. WeDo not know the history of our-Selves on this planet becauseWe do not have to know whatWe believe we own.

-Jericho Brown

Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.

-William Lloyd Garrison

  • Author Frederick Douglass
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    Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

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Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

-Frederick Douglass

A foot. Remember how DuBois saw those human feet in a butcher's window in downtown Atlanta? Brother, Sister, Children, you are not crazy to feel crazy here.

-Alice Walker

Oh, I must keep my heart inviolateAgainst the potent poison of your hate.

-Claude McKay

 

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