“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions.… — Sara Collins Copy Share Image
A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I feel like I get a variety of people in my crowd. Because of that, there's a nice amount of Hispanic people… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black. I can go out there and do a silly dance… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
“...how sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this (sit talking with friends and growing melons) and who… — Alexander Mccall Smith Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Nigger has no rival. There is no rough or refined equivalence between the term and the many derisive references to white folk.… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And just as some conceptualize racism as an inherent property of all white people, there are those who view trauma as a… — Bradley Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
“Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's extremely important for white athletes to speak out for racial justice. Black people and the black community have been fighting this… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
“Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
I've been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It's ridiculous... I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
“White delusion doesn't affect only white people, it also affects colored people, then they start making noises like white people - and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Then, as if getting blown up is not enough to worry about, after I take a seat on the steps, I get… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life… — Rick Revelle Copy Share Image
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist.… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image