African american Quote by John Shelton Reed

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

— Michelle Dean

You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political…

— Josh Marshall

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I do not want to be in the headlines, especially not talking about race. That is not my deal.

— Jordy Nelson

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I…

— Al Sharpton

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

— Winona LaDuke

Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.

— Paulo Coelho

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've…

— Taboo

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

— Jimmy Carter