365 Quotes About Race-relations

Cities are a sum of its people. Multiculturalism strengthens the sum.

None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.

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

There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

Fuck what you have heard or what you have seen in your son. He may lie about homework and laugh when the teacher calls home. He may curse his teacher, propose arson for the whole public system. But inside is the same sense that was in me. None of us ever want to fail. None of us want to be unworthy, to not measure up.

There is nothing like race, is there?

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

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