Awakening Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so…

— Aaron Dessner

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

— Annie Dillard

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there…

— Alveda King

Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Racism holds no place in our game and it holds no place in society. But unfortunately there are going to be incidents.

— Chris Hughton

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves…

— Albert Memmi

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really…

— Tracy Morgan

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for…

— Florynce Kennedy

To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up…

— Assata Shakur

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

— Billy Graham

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine