In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment. — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here” — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
“When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this… — Scott Zesch Copy Share Image
a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness… — Luis Quiros Copy Share Image
You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police.… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“Fo’ it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very… — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think we need strength. I think we also need somebody that can be a cheerleader. He's been a great divider in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
I think jobs can have a big impact. I think if we continue to create jobs - over a million, substantially more… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Another group with a vital role to play in the present crisis is the white Northern liberals. The racial issue that we… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“We have a collection of 800 jars of soil in our museum. We collect these soils from lynching sites. People who are… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the great immigrant experiment. It… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“We were laughing but I know that we were afraid of those who loved us most. Our parents resorted to the lash… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language” — Clotye Murdock Larsson Copy Share Image
“Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as… — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
We talk race relations, gender politics, about what's actually happening here in America... Winning 'Drag Race,' has allowed me to amplify that. — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
