African americans Quote by Claudia Rankine Download Open image ““because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying”” — Claudia Rankine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare African americans Black people Blacks Death Poem Poetry Police brutality Racism Systemic-racism
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying. — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“The white men have ways of doing you favors that can get you killed.” Crazy” — Win Blevins Copy Share Image
“But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“a videotape recording of a black man going down under the withering attack of four white police couldn’t convince you of the evil of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying. — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body? — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly half of… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how people categorize… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will… — David Beckmann Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
