“When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.” ShouldWritingBlackAngryGet AwayAutobiographyBlack Women Author:Alessandra Stanley
“Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.” BlackWhiteBoysGenerationsSonAngryNativeAdamSplitsBladesBananasRazorsOur GenerationBlack WhiteNative SonBanana Splits Author:William Upski Wimsatt
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.” PeopleThinkingReasonBlackAnimalAngryBlack WomenWild Things Author:Claudia Rankine