Beliefs Quote by Shelby Steele

“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites…

— John Howard Griffin

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

— Josephine Baker

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in…

— James A. Forbes

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual…

— Alice Walker

“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of…

— Eric Swalwell

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps…

— Rachel Simmons

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

— Dinesh D'Souza

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the…

— Joe Slovo

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

— Alex Linder