Religion is so very deeply ingrained in the black culture that it can be very difficult for young people to take the path of rationality and independence. With internet communities such as Facebook and YouTube, there is no reason for any black atheist to feel isolated. Come on out, be proud and be heard.

Logic has no color. You’ll find the same insanity and bigotries that you find in religion are common realizations with other free thinkers of all backgrounds. Most people are good by nature, not through any misguided devotion to ignorant bigots who claimed to speak for god thousands of years ago. Nothing should be worshiped whether it be man or imaginary.

During Black History Month, we should pay tribute to African Americans who freed their minds.

Quotes by African American free thinkers:

"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion." – Butterfly McQueen

“A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.” – Chris Rock

“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.” - A. Phillip Randolph

“Gods always behave like the people who make them.” - Zora Neale Hurston

“being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.” – James A. Baldwin

“It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” – James A. Baldwin

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” - Richard Wright

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” - Dr. Carter G. Woodson

“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” - Frederick Douglass

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” - Frederick Douglass

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

“I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.” – Alice Walker

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker

Videos by black atheists and agnostics:

Greatest African American Freethinkers



The Rise Of Black Atheism



Black Atheism



Coming Out As An Atheist



Neil Tyson tired of God



Certainty of Uncertainty Part 1



Greydon Square - Black Atheist



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