Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black biological inferiority…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“culturally conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural defenses.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

“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

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“Both segregationist and assimilationist ideas have been wrapped up in attractive arguments to seem good, and both have made sure to re-wrap antiracist ideas…

— Ibram X. Kendi

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”

— Steven D. Levitt

“behaving like Europeans. Or if they are studying and encounter an obstacle, like needing money or failing an assignment, they often give up. When…

— Catherine Titasey

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack

“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has pointed to…

— Ibram X. Kendi