There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“They want to erase us. It's their divine mandate. They want to make us better, to improve us, by turning us into… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me,… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Representations of pre-Color humans stand beside casualty statistics. One hundred and ten million died for Gold to rule. Then their bombers dropped… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Which seems ridiculous, but it would happen. Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. It wasn’t a… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems… — Dwane Casey Copy Share Image
“This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ...… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As white Americans, we sometimes think it's enough to say that we aren't racist. But that's selfish - that's just being worried… — Tom Izzo Copy Share Image
I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive 'isms.' But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message.… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The diffrence between a race and life is, in a race, your taught a lesson and given a chance, in life, your… — Tamica Lane Copy Share Image
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Here's a thought, instead of taking the easy road under the guise of being politically correct and making hasty judgments about matters… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in… — Chip Berlet Copy Share Image
People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
As a white person living your life, everything is built for and normalised for you - you have a free pass to… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
“By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
