Black Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.
Jesmyn Ward
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You've got the two titans. Streisand. Oprah. Both strong black women.
Kathy Griffin
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At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.
Kevin Young
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
Jesmyn Ward
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How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?
Mark Steyn
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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I gave to you, now, you give to meI'd like to know what you learned.The sky is blue and so is the seaWhat is the color, when black is burned?
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
Ken MacLeod
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I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.
Viola Davis
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
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The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.
Claudia Rankine
