African-american Quotes

and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered whe...

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be...

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of ...

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...

A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’...

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fig...

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...