Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi Download Open image ““most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.”” — Ibram X. Kendi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black people Racism
“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.” — Tepilit Ole Saitoti Copy Share Image
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“Racist.The word felt strange in my mouth:powerful,as if now that I could name the thing that was happening to me,it had become real,not something… — Maxine Beneba Clark Copy Share Image
“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.” — David Bullard Copy Share Image
“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know it but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
