62 Quotes About Racism-and-culture
- Author Janelle Gray
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It’s infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.
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- Author D.B. Mays
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Blacktivitiy"Bespattered with brilliant stars shining brightAnd suspended over the splendid, sable sea.Though all His works are wondrous beauties,God’s greatest paintings are of you and me.
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- Author Mitta Xinindlu
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It's fair to assume that racists are stupid and ignorant. Intelligent people wouldn't ignore the obvious fact. The fact is that we're all similar. We all deserve to be treated with dignity.
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- Author Bert McCoy
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Racism will be eradicated by men and women with picks and shovels.
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- Author Pat Mora
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What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves, we will be defined by others for their use and to our detriment." Our country and perhaps all human history is a pattern of oppression, repression, suppression, subjugation. Racism is part of our heritage, reminding us that not all aspects of a culture should be preserved.
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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Did you know that in the Lion King, the hyenas – the bad guys – all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?" "Do you realise that scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa?
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- Author Bernadine Evaristo
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a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist, a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman both sets are mad, Yazz I know, Warris I know -p58, from Girl, Woman, Other
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- Author Philip K. Dick
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Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me.
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