Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ben Carson

“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

“And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.”

— Ayn Rand

“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.”

— Tepilit Ole Saitoti

“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“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

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X

“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

“It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.”

— David Bullard