Race-relations Quotes

The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recog...

Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The de...

Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped shar...

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do yo...

Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the ...

May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

There is nothing like race, is there?

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes al...

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a ...

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with mag...

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There...

Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...

Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many year...

Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all c...

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would r...

This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the gr...

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expe...

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of ...

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in...

You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really...

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy...

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, u...

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they woul...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here