304 Quotes About African-americans
- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den?""Dey bosses it deyself.""You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks?""Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation.""Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.
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- Author Monica El
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We were excited to see you, but soon after you arrived, nations shut down, order saver inside.
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- Author Danez Smith
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think: once, a white girl was kidnapped & that's the Trojan War. later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy of a city of ash? of 1,000 ships launched because we are missed? i demand a war to bring the dead child back. i at least demand a song. a head.
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- Author Langston Hughes
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Well, I was looking for Justice," said Simple. "I was tired." "Tired of what?" "Of hearing the radio talking about the Four Freedoms all day long during the war and me living in Harlem where nary one of them freedoms worked--nor the ceiling prices either.
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- Author Harriet Ann Jacobs
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After the alarm caused by Nat Turner's insurrection had subsided, the slaveholders came to the conclusion that it would be well to give the slaves enough of religious instruction to keep them from murdering their masters.
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- Author Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I reminded him that he had just joined the church. "Yes, Linda," said he. "It was proper for me to do so. I am getting in years, and my position in society requires it, and it puts an end to all the damned slang. You would do well to join the church, too, Linda." "There are sinners enough in it already," rejoined I.
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- Author Harriet Ann Jacobs
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That's going to be my last trip. This trading in n***ers is a bad business for a fellow that's got any heart.
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- Author Mahogany L. Browne
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Equality will cost you your luxurious life If a Black woman can’t vote If a brown baby can’t be fed If we all don’t have the same opportunity America promised
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- Author Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Being in servitude to the Anglo-Saxon race, I was not put into a "Jim Crow car," on our way to Rockaway, neither was I invited to ride through the streets on the top of trunks in a truck; but every where I found the same manifestations of that cruel prejudice, which so discourages the feelings, and represses the energies of the colored people.
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