“ 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, forced serv… Brandi L. Bates
“ Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?and the correct answer is Not really. Auliq a
“ For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans… James Baldwin
“ Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out! Chinonye J. Chidolue
“ Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need. Most of the time it is the members of the ghetto who smash each other, and themselves. But as long as the ghetto walls are standing there will always c… James Baldwin
“ I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in… Paul Beatty
“ How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural.Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over. Colson Whitehead
“ Dear Non-Black American,when you comes to the United States, you become black.No matter of your origin. Stop saying you are Liberian, Jamaican, Belizean, Nigerian,South African or Ghanaian. White Amer… Henry Johnson Jr
“ In 7.81 square miles of vaunted black community, the 850 square feet of Dum Dum Donuts was the only place in the community where one could experience the Latin root of the word, where a citizen could… Paul Beatty
“ The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. Thomas Sowell
“ Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men still nourish the illusion that there is some means of recove… James Baldwin
“ To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction. Carvell Wallace
“ You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. I… Toni Morrison
“ At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself. James Baldwin
“ The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also so absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is… James Baldwin
