Quotes About Race

The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him

I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society.

Every colored person in this country is enslaved to the fears of whites and to the way those fears influence white behavior.

Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.

Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race!

Pese a lo que han estado sometidos, los negros son una gente bastante agradable en general. Yo había tenido poca relación con ellos, en realidad, pues sólo me relaciono con mis iguales, y como no tengo iguales, no me relaciono con nadie.

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

An Example from Recent History Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began to preach the doctrine of the Aryan "super race." This gospel of Aryan superiority enabled world rulers of this present darkness to move that corporate stronghold over the German mentality. Whoever among the German nation

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'