2,209 Quotes About Racism

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.

When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

If you press your ear to the turf that is stolenYou can hear the sound of limitations explodingPlease sir, may we have another portion?We're children of the beast that dodged the abortionNeck placed firm 'tween the floor and the FlorsheimWe'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortionCaution -- we're coming for your headSo call the Feds and get files to shredEvery textbook read said bring you the breadBut guess what we got you instead?We got the guillotine, we got the guillotine

A lot is said by the fact that you are unlikely to listen to an entire album by an African American rapper without coming across the word ‘police’.

Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism.

My biggest fantasy was to be able to take my revenge, which is a seriously screwed-up mentality for a child to have.

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country.

We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.