'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
“As C. S. Lewis so famously said in The Screwtape Letters, “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It makes white men uncomfortable that there aren't more stories about them because it somehow is perpetuating the idea that they aren't… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I knew it was a bad idea, but I was high. I tried to explain to him that it was a bad… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“Faggot, queer, fairy. Those words aren’t taught in a history course. You don’t learn them with the alphabet. Discrimination comes from the… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide… — S.J. Watson 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
I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
“Staff and faculty of color regularly play an additional role of caring for students of color who have often been the recipients… — Karen A Longman Copy Share Image
Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated / targeted for those shootings — even though most come at… — David Sirota Copy Share Image
I am proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character.… — Steve Clevenger Copy Share Image
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we… — Edward Furlong Copy Share Image
If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there,… — John Romero Copy Share Image
“We should give thanks to NPR, CNN and the Southern Poverty Law Center for identifying the real causes of racial tension in… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
