“ And if the word means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is yo… James Baldwin
“ The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. No road whatever will lead Americ… James Baldwin
“ For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans… James Baldwin
“ Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible;We do not agree they should inherit the earth. Alice Walker
“ How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural.Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over. Colson Whitehead
“ The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus.Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?White people. Who the fuck else? Supposedly, every February when schoolkids visit the Rosa Parks Museum, or wherever the fuck… Paul Beatty
“ The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recognition by our governments, national and state, of every right that inheres in civil freedom, and of… John Marshall Harlan
“ Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of bo… John Marshall Harlan
“ Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity i… Jared Taylor
“ Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men still nourish the illusion that there is some means of recove… James Baldwin
“ When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly… James Baldwin
“ You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. I… Toni Morrison
“ At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself. James Baldwin
“ Most people are not naturally reflective any more than they are naturally malicious, and the white man prefers to keep the black man at a certain human remove because it is easier for him thus to pres… James Baldwin
“ Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all. Orlando Figes
“ We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our o… Ta-Nehisi Coates
