Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black. — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States. — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
“We want freedom,' I say. 'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Eventually, this black leadership pressured and negotiated independence for Nigeria, beginning in 1960.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“By linking something to race or religion, politicians distract Malaysians from the core issue while also garnering support from those whose identities… — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that somebody could be a virulent racist... but actually that doesn't make somebody inhuman. It just means that… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part… — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“I was a young black man, light-skinned enough so that four out of five people who met me, of whatever race, assumed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Black Privilege and the White experience means as a black person you will experience life as normal, fine, yes you'll have some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
