Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs"
Slave Ships quotes
Slave Ships
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"People can be slave-ships in shoes."
Henry Louis Gates
Scholar, Historian
"You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa."
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