Quote by Michelle Alexander

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig…

— Rhiannon Giddens

“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.”

— Jared Taylor

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as though it…

— Michelle Alexander

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

— Bob Beckel

“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem.”

— Michelle Alexander

“In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial identity while…

— bell hooks

“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story…

— Roger Ross Williams

The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best…

— Rachel Dolezal

“My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race? If you fear or…

— Colin Flaherty