347 Quotes About Racism-in-america

The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft, that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing of the immigrant swarms he felt were threatening the traditions and monuments of his beloved New England and the whole Eastern seaboard. (And hadn’t Lovecraft done some ghost-writing for a man with a name like Castries? Caster? Carswell?)

Our police force was not created to serve black Americans; it was created to police black Americans and serve white Americans.

Racism is all over the world but the justice is nowhere

Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color.

It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans

Dark skin is nota crime.Light skin is nota prize.

My skin absorbs the sun's rays and my hair defies gravity.You can’t tell me I’m not supernatural.

A black man who lays claimto his unadulterated knowledge of self comes second only to God.A black woman who knowsher worth comes second to none.