Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“There will be always be people stronger and not as strong, smarter, and not quite as smart. It's best not to get… — Tricia McCallum Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is… — Samuel L. Jackson 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
I grew up in a household where we talked about race all the time, and that's sort of in me. So if… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Whenever I do complain about things, you hear people say, 'you're on this money, so get on with it.' I give up… — Danny Rose Copy Share Image
If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the Negroes do not connect morals with religion. The historian would like to know what race or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves… — Boosie Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Normally, 'black responsibility' is a forbidden phrase for a black leader -- not because blacks reject responsibility, but because even the idea… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others.… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes,… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have… — Khalid Abdul Muhammad Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with 'keeping it real' are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive and… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in… — Ruth First 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, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.” quote by Christopher Dodd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/christopher-dodd-13358_civil-war_i-do-not-think-it-is-an-exaggeration-at_543344.jpg)
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