316 Quotes About Blacks

Black people rarely forgave whites for being ragged, unkempt and uncaring. There was a saying which explained the disapproval: 'You been white all your life. Ain't got no further along than this? What ails you?

In response, he gave an almost imperceptible shoulder shrug that said, White folk gonna white folk.

Ivonne said, "You know white people are strange. I don't even know if they know why they do things." Ivonne had grown up in a small Mississippi town, and I, in a smaller town in Arkansas. Whites were as constant in our history as the seasons and as unfamiliar as affluence.

Slavery done made a fool out of a lot of folks. Twisted 'em all different kinds of ways. I seen it happen many a time in my day. I expect it'll happen in all our tomorrows, too, for when you slave a person, you slave the one in front and the one behind.

You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.

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.

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

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

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.