African american Quote by John Corvino

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

— Ben Carson

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

“The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.”

— Paul Theroux

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly identitarianism. All…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“I can tell you how exceptionally easy it is to be ignorant of the racial forces that have shaped my life and views, and…

— Debby Irving