Quotes About Injustice

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

If you're in a business where Latinos only play Indian maidens and what I call 'Conchita Lolita' parts - the little fiery spitfires - you do what you have to do.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my original thought, but it's true. Because you were born white, you have advantages systemically, culturally, psychology there. They have been built up for hundreds of years. Many people can't look at it.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.