Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself. Now, the heirs of...
I feel obliged to explain that I thought for quite a few years that I had lost my daughter to pirates during the Phoenix incident, she said. The first thing anyone knew, the legitimate colony was gone...
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the col...
On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.
Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.
Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, she said, and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.
The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Moveme...
The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the gate, individuals still have bars and elaborate internal security systems. Ame...
As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, Naked Without Shame, about black women's bodies and politics, Marked by shame, projected as inherent and therefore precluding any possibility of innocence, the bla...
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
We need to accept that our skin colour, our race, beliefs, our genders does not separate us, we stand as one, one united person, let us unite!
Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a wa...
If you tolerate fear, you yourself will become distrustful.If you tolerate hate, you yourself will become dispiteful.If you tolerate arrogance, you yourself will become concietful.If you tolerate igno...
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.