Quotes about Race relations

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The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present — and an understanding of the facts of the problem -- a magnanimous understanding by both races -- is the first step toward its solution.
This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the great immigrant experi — Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable — Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capa — Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some elem — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepr — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Un — Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was o — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born. — Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more — Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate — Malcolm X
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our ou — Shirley Chisholm, Unbought And Unbossed
It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what — Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the endu — Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story