Diaspora Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“Where is the culture of cleanliness?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

— Richard Attias

“I highly recommend cleanliness. It pleases women and annoys men, which are two excellent ways to get on in society.”

— Kate Ross

“We should ask ourselves whether efforts to achieve "cosmetic" racial diversity- that is, reform efforts that make institutions look good on the surface without…

— Michelle Alexander

“No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Planters of impossibilities suddenly became planters of possibilities when instructing imported Africans on the complexities of proslavery theory, racist ideas, tobacco production, skilled trades,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put…

— Malcolm X

King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned…

— Tom Perez

“We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies. Although most…

— Richard Rothstein

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse…

— Ida B. Wells

“Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.”

— Kevin Dutton

“considering these African people to be stamped from the beginning as a racially distinct people, as lower than themselves, and as lower in the…

— Ibram X. Kendi