Quotes about African americans

Explore a curated collection of 76 quotes about African americans at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on African americans from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of — Paul Robeson
Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite — Stephanie Lahart
It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me m — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
White ain't nothing.'Mama's grip did not lessen. 'It is something, Cassie. White is something just like black is somethi — Mildred D. Taylor
There are no clean victories for black people, nor, perhaps, for any people. The presidency of Barack Obama is no differ — Ta-Nehisi Coates
One Saturday morning last May, I joined the presidential motorcade as it slipped out of the southern gate of the White H — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in Am — Amelia Boynton Robinson
It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they — Amelia Boynton Robinson
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that th — Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
If we truly believe in the power of cultural institutions to impact communities and engage authentically with social jus — Monica O Montgomery
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens do — Rashod Ollison, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same siz — Darnell Lamont Walker