The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I know it's 'Dear White People,' and you can imprint all kinds of concessions about what the show might be about on… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
When you're a person of color in white America, you know white people. You know why you know white people? Because you… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“I therefore took it into my hands with all the expectation and read it through with all the attention due to a… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“From my limited and immature child’s point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
If white people are constantly told how culturally different their Asian neighbors are, and if Asians are told to be vigilant against… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“I was enraptured by Elaine’s tales about Billie and all the other famous jazz musicians she had known. For instance, she told… — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
“I was about to answer when I was interrupted by the sound of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony coming from my pocket. “That’s my… — Brad Parks Copy Share Image
Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if… — Vernon Jordan Copy Share Image
“And honestly, after all those images on the six o’clock news of the horrible things going on in Alabama and Mississippi, I… — Susan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with… — Logic Copy Share Image
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
“She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Them white people made hate. They made hate just like they had a formula for it and followed that formula down to… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
“A free black walks different than a slave,” he said. “White people recognize it immediately, even if they don’t know it. Walks… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
“Even at the tender age of twelve, when I knelt in front of the bishop for my confirmation, I had the sneaking… — Megan Edwards Copy Share Image
Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the '50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
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