Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.” — Bernice McFadden Copy Share Image
“We were laughing but I know that we were afraid of those who loved us most. Our parents resorted to the lash… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language” — Clotye Murdock Larsson Copy Share Image
“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is only one race on this planet and that is the human race. There are many ethnic families and I believe… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.” — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago]. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
