Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions.… — Sara Collins Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I feel like I get a variety of people in my crowd. Because of that, there's a nice amount of Hispanic people… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“You can't convince yourself! You either believe or you don't believe." (28) "She say you ask weird questions, but I say you're… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
“the worst thing that could happen to a colored child in the South was for a parent to hear that a child… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
“Hail, Columbia! Home of the six inch cockroach and the stadium-sized lecture hall. A reservation for rich white people guarded by poor… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“White people were dangerous and snakes were dangerous and now the two were working together, each doing what the other told it… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's extremely important for white athletes to speak out for racial justice. Black people and the black community have been fighting this… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist.… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life… — Rick Revelle Copy Share Image
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Lot of folks was in there for stealing food because everybody was poor and starving, and even though White people couldn’t get… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
I've been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It's ridiculous... I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
“White delusion doesn't affect only white people, it also affects colored people, then they start making noises like white people - and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Then, as if getting blown up is not enough to worry about, after I take a seat on the steps, I get… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture,… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
