Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings. — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
In The Race Of Life... Don't Waste Your Energy And Time Trying To Compare With Others.. Sometimes You Are Ahead.. Sometimes Behind..… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It… — Harvey Gantt Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city,… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“So what are you supposed to do? My friends, what I need you to do—just for starters—is not act. Not yet. Not… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“In the past, we used to discriminate on the basis of skin color and gender (and still do at times), but now… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
