Bad Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's…

— Kelela

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks…

— Clare Vanderpool

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

“The exclusion of blacks from high-skill, high-wage employment is rooted in Jim Crow and resistance to integration and is sustained through tradition, word-of-mouth network…

— Karl Alexander

“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can…

— Richard Kluger

My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and workedtogether I never heard or saw one cruel…

— Kate Virginia Cox Logan

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

— Bill Bailey

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us…

— Junius Williams