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“Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections. Like all diseases, it had to be analyzed at a microscopic…

— Mat Johnson

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race,…

— Tim Wise

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such…

— David Roediger

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I…

— Tessa Thompson

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Most white scholars eventually turn out to be just another colonial twit, no matter how brilliant, how learned they are, because animal conditioning doesn't…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

“Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by…

— Rebecca Solnit

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were…

— James Baldwin

“The intellects of the Harlem Renaissance realized that before whites would see blacks as equals, first blacks had to see themselves that way- and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…

— Richard Wright