“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of… — Martin Luther King Jr 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
“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
“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.” — Angie Thomas 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
“A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others? — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say,… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
