2,209 Quotes About Racism
- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.
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- Author Essex Hemphill
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I’m dying twice as fastas any other Americanbetween eighteen and thirty-fiveThis disturbs me,but I try not to show it in public.
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- Author Yaa Gyasi
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... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.
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- Author Henry Johnson Jr
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Dear Non-Black American,when you comes to the United States, you become black.No matter of your origin. Stop saying you are Liberian, Jamaican, Belizean, Nigerian,South African or Ghanaian. White America doesn't care about all that bull, that's why on the work application it doesn't give you the option to say Ghanaian or Jamaican, it says "African American.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
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