You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.
I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity.
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't h...
We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.
May 20, '95 - Mississippi calls. She says, "All my working life I have done things to help black people. I can drive into the black part of town where no white person would dare to go. I have nothing...
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?
On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.
There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there's a problem, the nice man in uniform who pats a toddler's head and has an easy smile for th...
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening...
When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments are in defiance of its painful truths. It is not a mist...
Racism is a physical experience.
Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.
Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
The condition of the black race, their pain, their wounds, would in his mind become merged with his own: the absent father and the hint of scandal, a mother who had gone away, the cruelty of other chi...