Absurdity Quote by Mark Twain

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

“But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.”

— Jake Vander Ark

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry

“Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people…

— Michael Chabon

“She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.”

— Sandra Kitt

“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there…

— Carleen Brice

“It has come as a great revelation to me,” I wrote her, “that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I was a slave to it, which was ironic since she was supposed to be my slave. She played her part well, make no…

— C.L. Parker

“It was all very pleasant and balmy, supremely beautiful and languid, if you were white, were rich, and turned a blind eye to the…

— Ron Chernow

“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon black women…

— Mark Lilla

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass