163 Quotes About Race-and-racism-in-america

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.

At this point, I think if you’re being silent, you’re making a choice and taking a side.

I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn’t willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.

Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origins and the great distance we’ve traveled since. Ditto for the dreams of a separate but noble past. Cosby’s, and much of black America’s, conservative analysis flattens history and smooths over the wrinkles that have characterized black America since its inception.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

You cannot claim you treat everyone equally If you are judging others by their ethnicity.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.