124 quotes found
“In my quest to find Green Cottenham, I also discovered an unsettling truth that when white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company...”
“Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, ...”
“Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.”
“I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.”
“Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.”
“There is nothing like race, is there?”
“p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their vi...”
“To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. 'Nigga' becomes 'porch monkey' becomes 'coon'...”
“The white people are crazy. They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking things from other people. They think that if you do not see...”
“Race doesn't exist.Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and color, the form of fingernails, and the amount and texture...”
“They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored m...”
“I am proud of my complexion, there is always someone darker than you ,thats just true Be proud your YOU.”
“We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.And you were going to arrest her without even knocking on the door?We had to secure her first. Um. Are you okay, m...”
“Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, maam.”
“P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.”
“He had no racial feelingnot because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.”
“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they mere...”
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!”
“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.”
“Skin color doesn't make you different," Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that," Raymond replied, "are white.”
