Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
One ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asund...
No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit yo...
My enlightened racial consciousness demands that I reject the so-called greatness of William Faulkner and William Shakespeare. I don't have time for any of that Hamlet jive -- but Marvel superheroes a...
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.
Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origin...
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.
All the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, did...
Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
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