“There are so many opportunities to reveal race in literature— whether one is conscious of it or not. But writing non-colorist literature about black people is a task I have found both liberating and hard.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“In other works, such as The Bluest Eye, the consequences of the color fetish are the theme: its severely destructive force.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Since no one is born a racist and there is no fetal predisposition to sexism, one learns Othering not by lecture or instruction but by example.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“One purpose of scientific racism is to identify an outsider in order to define one’s self. Another possibility is to maintain (even enjoy) one’s own difference without contempt for the categorized difference of the Othered.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“The point is that everything great and iconic about this country comes when seemingly disparate parts are blended in revelatory ways. That merging simply doesn’t happen in places where people are separated by race and ethnicity and class. And it’s not only what makes American culture so rich, but it…”— Bari Weiss, nytimes.com
“I’m here to spread my ideas, talk, in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that. Somebody like Donald Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew.”— Christopher Cantwell, nytimes.com
“Unless we get rid of legal and illegal migration, we will not have a country.’”— Peter Tefft, nytimes.com
“Somebody forgot the pitchforks at home, so all we got is torches.”— Augustus Sol Invictus, nytimes.com
“I'm sympathetic insofar as I think the 'cultural appropriation' critique has often gone too far. But what needs to be known is that African-American artists have created incredible, magical intellectual property -- only to have it monetized by white people, while the black artist gets nothing. That'…”— PieChart Guy, nytimes.com
“[Cultural] appropriation suggests theft, and a process analogous to the seizure of land or artifacts. In the case of culture, however, what is called appropriation is not theft but messy interaction. Writers and artists necessarily engage with the experiences of others. Nobody owns a culture, but ev…”— Kenan Malik, nytimes.com