Black Like Me Quotes

“Now you go into oblivion.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Night coming tenderly
Black like me.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Be comfortable in your black skin. If someone finds a threat in it, then they should visit their psychologist. ”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“I told them good night and returned to my room, less lonely and warmed by the brief contact with others like me who felt the need to be reassured that an eye could show something besides suspicion or hate”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me