2,209 Quotes About Racism

Racism exists in the mind, not the heart.

It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.

White Privilege DENIERS; Don't you understand that you cannot disprove something that you yourself are the direct evidence of...Why is "your identity" so hinged on their disparities?

The lies that people tell themselves are the worst of all lies.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

I remember very well having said to the Martinican Communists in those days, that black people, as you have pointed out, were doubly proletarianized and alienated: in the first place as workers, but also as blacks, because after all we are dealing with the only race which is denied even the notion of humanity.

Republicans always have and always will take the shortest path of the least resistance, because they're cowards at heart that have a really shitty work ethic that causes a severe lack of responsibility for the truth.

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.