“ To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate. Tennessee West
“ What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell,… Darnell Lamont Walker
“ You see, he said turning to Mr Norton, he has eyes and ears and a good distended African nose, but he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand. Understand? It’s worse than that. He reg… Ralph Ellison
“ When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white r… Harold Cruse
“ In most black people, there is a South Side, a sense of home, that never leaves, and yet to compete in the world, we have to go forth. So we learn to code-switch and become bilingual. We save our Timb… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice DaShanne Stokes
“ Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now. DaShanne Stokes
“ We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail. DaShanne Stokes
“ You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiven… Jason Versey
“ I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room. Louise Erdrich
“ You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expe… James Baldwin
“ How shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s hall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ It trains the kid in question to determine when people in the corner of his eye are talking about him and when they are not, a useful skill in later life when sorting out bona-fide persecution from pe… Colson Whitehead
