“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“the only thing extraordinary about White people is that they think something is extraordinary about White people. I” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Garrison kept arriving in the same racist place as his enslaving enemies—subhuman Black inferiority.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Prejudice “will cease,” Kelsey wrote, “when the blacks can command the respect and sympathy of the whites.”26 In” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racist policies forcing free Blacks into menial jobs were being defended by racist claims that lazy and unskilled Black people were best… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Stamped from the Beginning presents this new history. It does not use terms like overt and covert, or explicit and implicit to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I know that readers truly committed to racial equality will join me on this journey of interrogating and shedding our racist ideas.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“But the statue attracted a middle-aged, brown-haired, overweight White guy. Clearly drunk, he climbed onto the tiny stage and started fondling Buddha… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“if there is anything I have learned during my research, it’s that the principal producers and defenders of racist ideas will not… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“That is what it truly means to think as an antiracist: to think there is nothing wrong with Black people, to think… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“But for all of that life-shaping power, race is a mirage, which doesn’t lessen its force. We are what we see ourselves… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities must be the result of… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Some “superior” Africans agreed with the collection of ethnocentric steps for Africans, but rejected the racist ladder that deemed them inferior to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Of course, racist planters could not admit that Black runaways were self-reliant enough to effect their own safety and happiness—to be free.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“intersectionality”—prejudice stemming from the intersections of racist ideas and other forms of bigotry, such as sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“To justify Black enslavement, Barbados planters actually “preferred” the polygenesis theory over the curse theory of Ham,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to prevent the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Our education has filled us with strong prejudices against them,” Hopkins professed, “and led us to consider them, not as our brethren, or in… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
