Famous quotes containing the words free and/or blacks:
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)