“Wednesday: That woman thinks Jesus suffered for her sins. They're her sins, why should Jesus do all the suffering? Shadow: Cause his dad sacrificed his ass. Wednesday: Don't blame the parent. Plenty of suffering and blame to go around. Although that White Jesus could stand a little more suffering. H…”— Maria Melnik, Mr. Wednesday, Ian McShane, imdb.com
“In the American cultural imagination, smart, beautiful women are — still — often white; accordingly, these are the bodies in which we seek and hail the exceptional.”— Rachel Vorona Cote, buzzfeednews.com
“What the hell kind of country is this where I can only hate a man if he's white?”— Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Hank Hill, Mike Judge, imdb.com
“Music is universal; no matter what race or religion you are, what you believe in, or where you are, music can still speak to you, and if it does, listen!”— Austin Carlile, theaquarian.com
“You can only vote within your race or your group. Just pretend it's the 1950s. It makes it easier to understand.”— Jenji Kohan, Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols, Natasha Lyonne, imdb.com
“When white writers want to write about race, they tend to be most successful when they write about whiteness, and least successful when they write about (proximity to) Blackness or other marginalized identities that are not their own.”— Kaveh Akbar, twitter.com
“I get that being reduced to a race-based generalization is a new and devastating experience for some of you. But here’s the difference: my jokes don’t incarcerate your youth at alarming rates or make it unsafe for you to walk around your own neighborhoods. But yours do. When you mock or belittle us,…”— Justin Simien, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com
“A bullet held me captive, gun in my face, your hate misplaced. White skin, light skin, but for me, not the right skin.”— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Reggie Green, Marque Richardson, imdb.com
“Dear white people, here’s a little tip: When you ask someone who looks ethnically different ‘what are you?’ the answer is usually a person about to slap the shit out of you.”— Justin Simien, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com
“Sometimes being carefree and black is an act of revolution.”— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Joelle Brooks, Ashley Blaine Featherson, imdb.com
“Daryl Dixon: You got some balls for a China man. Glenn Rhee: I'm Korean. Daryl Dixon: Whatever.”— Robert Kirkman, Glenn Rhee, Steven Yeun, imdb.com
“There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, thecut.com
“How can I pledge allegiance to the flag?When they killin' all our sons, all our dads?”— Meek Mill, Miguel, open.spotify.com
“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the ti…”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal.’ yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Maybe I had avoided the spectacle because I was afraid for her, afraid for us, because I thought it might be too much to hope that others could fall in love with her, too.”— Mara Gay, nytimes.com
“The racial wealth gap is not simply a byproduct of racism. It is the *goal* of racism. Racism has always served to maintain a permanent black underclass of unpaid or underpaid labor while wealth/resources are concentrated among a 'white' elite.”— Bree Newsome, twitter.com
“Diversity is good for all of us. It makes us better and more empathetic people. And it teaches us to value and appreciate everyone.”— Ellen Oh, twitter.com
“As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate.”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com