Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I've had lots of people say, 'Oh, Franchesca's content is just for white people.' But I try to talk about identity in… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“White people who want people of color to do the work for them, who want us to draw the map and then… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Guys! While your'e BUSY ignoring your lady, another guy is TRYING really hard to get her attention. While your'e too busy for… — London Mond 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
“We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's… — Kelela Copy Share Image
The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with… — Common Copy Share Image
“As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the… — Baratunde R. Thurston Copy Share Image
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes,… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm… — Logic Copy Share Image
As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“White people are drawn to farmer’s markets like moths to a flame. In fact, white people have such strong instincts that if… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
“Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are “the white people who look seriously… — Pavel Tsatsouline Copy Share Image
“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them"… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
