Black History Quotes
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.
