Hardship Quote by Ijeoma Oluo

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

— Malcolm X

“People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites.”

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.”

— Sherman Alexie

“people live complicated because they describe their life so, make it simple to black and white will make they feel more alive”

— Rija Lulhaq

“Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make…

— Jodi Picoult

“White people find it extremely hard to live in an environment they don't control.”

— Coleman A. Young

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping…

— Harper Lee

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source;…

— John Rollin Ridge

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou