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Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist. — Auliq Ice

[T]he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you. — Azar Nafisi

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Crystal, do you like being a white girl? — Randolph Randy Camp

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. — Steve Stoute

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time. — Katelyne Parker

And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. — David Mutti Clark

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense. — DaShanne Stokes

White is not always light and black is not always dark. — Habeeb Akande

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily. — Stephen Ambrose

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. — Ferial Haffajee

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all. — Allan G. Johnson

Sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names
I dedicate every pore to what's here — Ikkyu

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man. — Colson Whitehead

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast). — John Scalzi

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood. — Katelyne Parker

The only thing white about me is the skin I'm wearing. — Randolph Randy Camp

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. — DaShanne Stokes

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do. — Brian Spellman

You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born. — Stacey Lee

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

When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White. — Darnell Lamont Walker

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own? — Stacey Lee

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. — Christian Smith

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. — Clint Eastwood

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs. — Carlos Wallace

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust. — Jamaica Kincaid

You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality. — Kliph Nesteroff

Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue. — Shannon Celebi

Don't Tase Me Bro!
If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm tasing you. — Larry Wilmore

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. — Dick Gregory

Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language — Clotye Murdock Larsson

Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race — Bangambiki Habyarimana

J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi. — Bernice L. McFadden

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.

The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage

If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings too. — Werley Nortreus

We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil. — Darnell Lamont Walker

You're not a bad man or a stupid man, what you are is a white man. — Barbra-Lee Stephen

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. — Constance Baker Motley

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white. — Shannon Celebi

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

Cities are a sum of its people. Multiculturalism strengthens the sum. — James Morris Robinson

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go! — Anthony Marais

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

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

There is nothing like race, is there? — Oscar Wilde