Alex Quote by Manning Marable

[Alex Hayley] wanted to show the negative aspects of the N.O.I.'s ideology, Yacub's history, and all of the ramifications of racial separatism that he…

— Manning Marable

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what…

— Manning Marable

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because…

— Kamasi Washington

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

— Manning Marable

“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were…

— Michelle Alexander

“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no…

— Manning Marable

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22…

— Malcolm X

'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“I'm from the Lenape Tribe. There're no full blooded Lenape alive. Interracial is assimilatory genocide, especially for Indiginous and Minorities worldwide. Especially when specific…

— San Mateo