Books Quote by Alexandra Richie

“These racialized narratives tend to confirm and reinforce the prevailing public consensus that we need not care about “those people”; they deserve what they…

— Michelle Alexander

“Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the…

— Ray Bradbury

“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.”

— Debby Irving

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

“In sum, restoring notions of race mixture to center stage recommits us, willy-nilly, to the discredited idea of racial purity, the basic premise of…

— Barbara J. Fields

I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I…

— Steven C. Harper

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my…

— Romare Bearden

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

— Dee Dee M Scott

“While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments of stress…

— Timothy Snyder

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall