Brave Quote by Franchesca Ramsey

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate I was…

— Roger Ross Williams

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

— Amanda Seales

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we…

— Bell Hooks

All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the…

— Toni Morrison

“Quick sidebar: It may seem like I’m a sexist twat who only sees women in terms of their looks, but I don’t think I…

— V. Moody

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white…

— Viola Davis

I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was…

— Mathew Knowles

“Every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror, I see a black face and I love it. Sure, I've been to…

— Natalie Baszile

“It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous…

— Barack Obama

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman.…

— Ruby Dee

“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t…

— Zadie Smith

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who…

— Sandra Tsing Loh