Afraid Quote by Colson Whitehead

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead

“White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.”

— Chris Hayes

“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.”

— Jabari Asim

“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the…

— James Baldwin

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

— John Quincy Adams

“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white…

— James Baldwin

“The whites got what they deserved. For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by…

— Colson Whitehead

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that…

— Ayana Mathis

“I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to…

— Victor Hugo

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.”

— David Lane

“Whites were fools and one had constantly to fight in order not to underestimate their power and danger, because a powerful and dangerous fool…

— Sam Greenlee