Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

If the negro be a soul, if the woman be a soul, apparelled in flesh, to one master only are they accountable.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Souls don't have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

Souls are God's jewels.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, and you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us.

It aint about black or white cause we're human

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.