Criticism Quote by Chinua Achebe

“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is…

— Chinua Achebe

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our…

— Barack Obama

“The utility of "structural" racism for demagogues like Jackson is that even while acknowledging that the vast majority of whites are no longer overtly…

— David Horowitz

“Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority…

— Timothy B. Tyson

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

“But racism is most outrageously to the fore in ‘Ashraf and Anjab’, in which the sadistically villainous Anjab is described by Harun al-Rashid as…

— Malcolm C. Lyons

“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not…

— James Baldwin

“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a…

— Bessie Head

“The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.”

— Paul Theroux

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the…

— James Fenton

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“As Alcoff (1998: 18) argues, ‘Racism appears to be deeply sedimented into white psyches in a process that is newly reenforced [sic] each day.’ This”

— Clare Land