Does anyone in this room have it?””No, Chris, no one here has it.””How do you know?””Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain.”I didn’t have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I...
—Chris Crutcher
I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.
—Darnell Lamont
White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.
they’ll match the lemonade.” I make love like an Arnold Palmer, but not like Arnold Palmer.
—Jarod Kintz
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
—N.K. Jemisin
I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.
—Michael Bassey Johnson
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is...
—Slavoj Žižek
I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.
—Alafia Stewart
Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don’t want some poor Indian girl’s hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people...
—Zadie Smith
I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
—Allan Dare Pearce
On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor,...
—Brandi L.
I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man’s court, Ray had told me,...
—Barack Obama
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