227 Quotes About Black-history

Idistinctly remember a debate about whether racism was simplydiscrimination, or discrimination plus power. Thinking about power made merealise that racism was about so much more than personal prejudice. It wasabout being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.

I wish you would feel how our ancestors felt as they were handed off from their families and put in dungeons and tortured. Some raped and killed.

Let me tell you here and now as a black person, we don't expect charity, we just expect the trust and dignity, to which the white person is entitled in this world by default.

But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking.

There's a castle on the coast of Fanteland called the Cape Coast Castle. That is where they used to keep the slaves before they sent them away, to Aburokyire: America, Jamaica. Asante traders would bring in their captives. Fante, Ewa, or Ga middlemen would hold them, then sell them to the British or Dutch or whoever was paying the most at the time. Everyone was responsible. We all were... we all are.

I am the offspring of their sacrifice, the fruit of a freedom tree planted by the enslaved and watered with the tears of the shackled,the daydream of slave minds drunk with precious thoughts of liberty, the answered prayer of an oppressed people. Because they were,I am.  

When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.