Black Quotes

History has witnessed many episodes of black oppression in different parts of the world. White colonial rulers ensured the subjugation of the black community. But black Africans and African-Americans struggled their way up the socio-economic ladder. Many of them earned laurels for their illustrious work. Visionaries like Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver are the pillars of modern black society. Their words inspire millions.

• Rev. Jesse Jackson
  America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.
  
  
• Marcus Garvey
  The black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
  
  
• Bill Cosby
  I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
  
  
• Angela Davis
  Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
  
  
• Huey P. Newton
  Black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
  
  
• Frederick Douglass
  To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
  
  
• Bo Diddley
  Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
  
  
• Frederick Douglass
  I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
  
  
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
  I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
  
  
• Harriet Tubman
  I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves.
  
  
• W. E. B. Du Bois
  The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.