End Quote by Colson Whitehead

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through…

— Barack Obama

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

— Richard Rodriguez

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

— George Henry Lewes

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights…

— Shelby Steele

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

— Michael Emerson

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

— Arthur Kemp

I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.

— Michelle Alexander

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people…

— Angela Davis

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

— John Legend