“White systems of oppression seek to divide, to distract, to turn kinfolk against each other, to foster false competition. Their cherry-picked version of blackness, black pain, and acceptable blackness has become weaponized. Reviewers, I see you. You're not slick.”— Dhonielle Clayton, twitter.com
“Donald Trump didn't invent racism. Trump didn't invent Islamophobia. And he didn't invent violence. All he did was put his name on them like he does with everything else.”— Trevor Noah, en.wikiquote.org
“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race mixing proves that races can mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of th…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“But the real world doesn't go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening. And at some point you have to choose; black or white, pick a side. You can try to hide from it. You can say, oh I don't take sides, but at some poi…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“Instead, Roseanne’s cackling drowns these stories out—that’s what star power is.”— Emily Nussbaum, newyorker.com
“Race and racial conflict are at the heart of some of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century.”— Vann R. Newkirk II, theatlantic.com
“There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.”— Tiger Woods, washingtonpost.com
“We do live in a racist country. We have to evolve and have to realize that truth and reconciliation is here, too—it’s not only in South Africa or Cambodia. Young people have to learn what happened in our history, and we need people to know that we’re walking on the boards of genocide. This is a plac…”— Danny DeVito, thedailybeast.com
“Marty: What do you call a black man who flies a plane? Bobby: I don’t know. Marty: Pilot, you racist bastard.”— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com
“I was not made by a racist media and I will not be unmade by a racist media. What matters is what I mean to my people...without economic power, freedom is worthless”— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, facebook.com
“[T]his condition of being treated as children we want to have nothing to do with…the majority of the Omahas are as competent as the same number of white people.”— Susan La Flesche Picotte, encyclopedia.com
“It was only an Indian and it did not matter. The doctor preferred hunting for prairie chickens rather than visiting poor, suffering humanity.”— Susan La Flesche Picotte, en.wikipedia.org
“1964, when I was in Vegas, there were places I wasn’t supposed to go because I was black, but Frank [Sinatra] fixed that for me. It takes individual efforts like that to change things.”— Quincy Jones, vulture.com
“They don't hear your voice! They just see the color of your face. You understand? You understand?”— Hugh Glass, imdb.com
“Fill out job applications in crayon and if you don’t get hired just blame it on your color.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. Over the years, a lot of organizations have asked me to b…”— Willie Mays, amazon.com
“[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org