2,209 Quotes About Racism

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Hurricane Katrina is easily a metaphor for America's attitude toward Black women: rejected, neglected, and never protected. But Black women's persistence and their insistence on survival and restoration are a metaphor for their attitude toward America.

What I had not known was that perception of people like us did not quite coincide with our perception of who we were and what we were about. More than anything, however, being a domestic servant did more to me than it did for me. It introduced me to the fundamentals of racism.

A human wants only one thing: to be seen and received. But a woman is seen only when she is sexualized. A Black person is seen only when they fit a role. And a homeless person is not seen at all.

Three days later when his body was found they wanted to bury him in Mississippi. I wanted him home in Chicago. I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy. I wanted Emmett's death to be the last death. I wanted Emmett's death to kill American innocence. I wanted Emmett's death to be not only the death of my boy but the death of innocence. I wanted Mississippi, I wanted America, to give us justice. And I prayed that I would live long enough to see it.

Don't you believe in nonviolence?' I asked."'Yes,' said Miss Minnie, 'when the other parties are nonviolent, too. But when I have just come out of a funeral parlor from looking at a little small black boy shot three times by a full-grown cop, I think it is about time I raised my pocketbook and strike at least one blow for freedom.

I want to be talked to. The world needs to accept us as people with strengths and weaknesses. For generations of Kurds, life has begun and ended in violence. I hope that time has passed.

But Black women and our children know the fabric of our lives is stitched with violence and with hatred, that there is no rest.

Love conquers the temporary hold of fear and hate. Inhumanity is a loop without it.