124 quotes found
“Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.”
“Can people of color be racist? I reply, The answer depends on your definition of racism. If one defines racism as racial prejudice, the answer is yes. People of color can and do have racial prejudi...”
“Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!”
“My color is my joy and not my burden...”
“Im not that kind of Indian, Shanti said, her practiced smile never leaving her face, though it faltered just a bit, and in that slight wobble was something hard and angry, something that looked lik...”
“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both in the way they talk about u...”
“Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.”
“Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over...”
“You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.”
“When I lived on the Bluff in Yokohama I spend a good deal of my leisure in the company of foreign residents, at their banquets and balls. At close range I was not particularly struck by their white...”
“brown life is an unbroken bearing of the weight and hollow of the active absence of brown life.”
“In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society...”
“They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it...”
“Serious history was the West, and the West was white.”
“Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.”
“If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not off...”
“Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.”
“Until slow and steady could win the race, being fast and speedier can bring no further grace”
“Displaced workers, along with others who fear for their livelihood, are fertile ground in which to sow anti-immigrant sentiment, since angry and frustrated people often seek some target on which to...”
“there is no stronger taboo today than talking about race. In many cases, just being accused of racism can get you fired. Yet, teachers in America know the races differ in school achievement; police...”
