Asking Quote by Walter Mosley

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples…

— Malcolm X

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking…

— Walter Dean Myers

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free…

— Tim Wise

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all…

— Bell Hooks

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of…

— Sidney Poitier

I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't understand. And…

— Daryl Davis

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and…

— Malaak Shabazz

“Just imagine coming from people of two different races that had not a blamed thing in common except a love of blood in every…

— James Carlos Blake

Racism made me resilient. It taught me to be empathic. There is no upside to it, but I gained a sense of my own…

— Andi Oliver

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is…

— William Faulkner

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb