“If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Boiss famous words, the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the ref...”

“Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, itll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone...”

“If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Boiss famous words, the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the ref...”

“Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyon...”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”