But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says,...
We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the...
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselve...
Racism breeds racism in reverse.
When I like a black person, they dislike me.When I like a white person, they despise me.When I like a mixed person, they harass me.When I like an illiterate person, they revile me.When I like an educa...
We need a conversion of morals, the elderly man said. Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we'll never have the ri...
No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads y...
External explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to many to be more amenable to public policy than internal explanations such as culture. Those with this...
It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
I often say never write about white people. Not many people realize what I mean by this. Its pretty simple. Some may think its unrealistic to have an ethnically diverse cast but its ten times more unr...
America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
You can't have capitalism without racism.
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional...
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the uni...
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousn...
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.