Black Racism Quotes
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Black Racism Quotes & Sayings
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I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
— Richard Wright
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
— Julian Bond
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
— DaShanne Stokes
Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
— Toni Morrison
They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.
— Ferial Haffajee
Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
— Steven D. Levitt
The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind — Maria Cristina Mena
Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me. — Darnell Lamont Walker
Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
— Coretta Scott King
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
— Jamaica Kincaid
Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.
— Anthony Jeselnik
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.
— Charles Barron
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
— Arthur Ashe
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
— Assata Shakur
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
— Douglas Wilder
In America, black is a country.
— Amiri Baraka
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
— Frederick Douglass
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
— Jasmine Guy
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,
— Geraldo Rivera
It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.
— David Bullard
Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The thing about the black market is, it's racist. White children make useful slaves, too.
— M.C. Humphreys
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...
— Darcus Howe
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
— Jonathan Lethem
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.
— Werley Nortreus
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
— Margaret Walker
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
— Dorothy Cotton
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
— Angela Y. Davis
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Black people are either threats or entertainment.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
— Morgan Freeman
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
— Pearl Cleage
This so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
— James Weldon Johnson
Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.
— Kathy McClary
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
— Justin Simien
Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.
— Victor LaValle
Black Is The Most Beautiful colour because it does not reflect it absorbs all into itself.
— Amit Abraham
Whose little boy are you?
— James Baldwin
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Racism itself is black. It's OWL. It's everywhere.It's Our Whole Life — Bhavik Sarkhedi
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
