Quote by John Howard Griffin

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,…

— W. Kamau Bell

“Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put,…

— James Baldwin

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

“I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy.”

— Dave Chappelle

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or…

— Laura Yes Yes

“People pretend he’s a white man when it suits them, erasing part of who he is.”

— Rae Carson

“We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as…

— John Hodgman

“he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could…

— Yaa Gyasi

“Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with,…

— Sun Yung Shin

“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.”

— Richard Wright

“If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.”

— Alice Walker

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build…

— Booker T. Washington