Black Diaspora Quotes

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

We are better off than all the other Black people in the entire world. We are the hope and aspiration of Blacks in the rest of the world.

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black.

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way.

I am part of the pan-African diaspora.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.