Black Boy Quotes

“Just as some cultures have a hundred words for 'snow,' there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.”
― Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

“....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.”
― Richard Wright

“No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“So each part of his day would be consumed in a war with himself, a good part of his energy would be spent in keeping control of his unruly emotions, emotions which he had not wished to have, but could not help having.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy