Racism Quote by Michelle Alexander

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

— John Edgar Wideman

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared,…

— Archibald MacLeish

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

— Condoleezza Rice

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

— Dennis Rodman

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we…

— Anna Deavere Smith

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in…

— Daniel Boone

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in…

— Harold Nicholas

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid,…

— Charles Bukowski

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights…

— Shelby Steele

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine