316 Quotes About Blacks
- Author Kevin Young
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Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.
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- Author maya angelou
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Did he insult you? I mean us, the race?" "Not directly. Like most white racists, he was paternalistic. I would have preferred he slap me than that he talk down upon me. Then I could retaliate in kind.
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- Author maya angelou
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Although there is nothing amusing about racial discrimination, the oppressed find funny things to say about it. "The white folks are so prejudiced in my town, a colored person is not allowed to eat vanilla ice cream.
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- Author John Updike
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Sad business, being a Negro man, always underpaid, their eyes don’t look like our eyes, bloodshot, brown, liquid in them about to quiver out. Read somewhere some anthropologist thinks Negroes instead of being more primitive are the latest thing to evolve, the newest man.
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- Author Claudia Rankine
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because white men can'tpolice their imaginationblack people are dying
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- Author Kevin Young
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A quiet snowglobe of pain I want to shake. While the flakes fall like ash we race the train to reach the place Emmett Till last whistled or smiled or did nothing.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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...Whuss de news?""Oh de white folks is still in de lead.
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- Author James McBride
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He ain't gonna live long, child. He's crazy. He thinks the n***ers's equal to the white man.
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- Author Claudia Rankine
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Sitting there staring at the closed garage door you are reminded that a friend once told you there exists the medical term--John Henryism--for people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.
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