“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
All people, all cultures have some sort of racism. It's a cultural thing and I think that part of the issue is… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
“It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Blacks have the most to gain from Stand Your Ground laws, and there is no evidence that the laws are applied in… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Among the early warnings was one in an article appearing in the New York Times Magazine of December 13, 1970, by a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that “their griefs are transient.” American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are “mud people”… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“Beloved, there is something black folk fear, whether you can see it or not, whether some of us black folk will say… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“I have met people who truly do not believe in God, and they feel no anger when they see suffering. They are… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Race, for me, should be social and cultural, rather than the colour of your skin. Anton Ferdinand would have more in common… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But the majority will continue to insist—speaking metaphorically—that black is white, and after a period of exasperation, irritation, even anger, certainly incomprehension,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
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