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“Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why th...”
“She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. T...”
“We need to accept that our skin colour, our race, beliefs, our genders does not separate us, we stand as one, one united person, let us unite!”
“Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands...”
“Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.”
“I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.”
“What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance. I envy the freedom to sin with only a little bit of consequence, to commit one selfish act and not have it mean the downfall of my entire people...”
“I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save ...”
“Racism breeds racism in reverse.”
“A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.”
“Ten wagons to choose from and you pick the only one that has a human on it. Racist.”
“America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.”
“I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred pl...”
“Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.”
“Whitenessthe whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in being whiteis the problem. Whiteness is degraded and depraved[] To the degree that we accept any of ...”
“It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things becau...”
“Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the ...”
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no l...”
“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-crie...”
“I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.”
