African american Quote by Edward E. Baptist

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us…

— Junius Williams

“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

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinctby time and circumstances, are inferior…

— Thomas Jefferson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men…

— Harriet Jacobs

“The effort whites put into observing racial etiquette has been demonstrated in the laboratory.”

— Jared Taylor

“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip…

— Bonnie Greer

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build…

— Booker T. Washington

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in…

— Doris Lessing

“African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates…

— Michelle Alexander

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor…

— David Hume