Civilization Quote by Walter Mosley

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

— Walter Mosley

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

— Anna Holmes

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science…

— Manisha Sinha

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…

— Jon Weisman

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women…

— Maya Angelou

“English physician Charles White, the well-known author of a treatise on midwifery, entered the debate over species in 1799. Unlike Scotland’s Lord Kames, White…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was…

— Malcolm X

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black…

— Henry Louis Gates

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