“Don't Tase Me Bro! If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.” — Bernice McFadden Copy Share Image
We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated. — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago]. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage Copy Share Image
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Being politically correct does not change the existence of poor race relations; it just gives us an acceptable mask to hide behind… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about… — Elle Thornton Copy Share Image
For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships,… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
“The United States has poured more moral energy into improving race relations than into anything else in its history. And yet, in… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me… — Jon Sindell Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still.… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I think various places in this country are ready to explode. I think [race relations] are very tense. I think that [Barack]… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be.… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes. If the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in… — Richard Grant Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
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