2,209 Quotes About Racism

As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Even at five, I had somehow figured out that there was a group known as ‘white people’ to whom it was now clear my mother belonged and that many of these people would get offended at the mere mention of their whiteness. I somehow knew instinctively that whiteness, like all systems of power, preferred not to be interrogated.

Slavery never ended in America, it was only extended to people of all races.

What distinguished Nazi racism was more the power to act on it than the values behind it.

the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder.–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

Name, religion, race and creed I wonder Who am I without these? My state of being or color of my skin I wonder What are the criteria of their categorizing?

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

Women's liberationists, white and black, will always be at odds with one another as long as our idea of liberation is based on having the power white men have. For that power denies unity, denies common connections, and is inherently divisive.