Race Quotes

When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

~ Neal Shusterman

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

~ John Scalzi

Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he didn't care that he had blood on his hands. He had won the STEDFARST races every year so far by being ruthless butchering other racers as he went.

~ Charon Lloyd-Roberts

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

~ Salman Rushdie

When you run your own race, don't worry about the next person's pace; mind yours, after all this is your own race not theirs.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.

~ Syed Ather

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

~ Thurgood Marshall

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

~ Frederick Douglass

We go on in her room, where we like to set. I get up in the big chair and she get up on me and smile, bounce a little. Tell me bout the brown wrapping. And the present. She so excited, she squirming. She has to jump off my lap, squirm a little to get it out. Then she crawl back up. That's her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly grocery bag and wrap up a little something, like piece a candy, inside. Then I use the white paper from my Cole's Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it. She take it real serious, the unwrapping, letting me tell the story bout how it ain't the color a the wrapping that count, it's what we is inside.

~ Kathryn Stockett

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

~ Christopher Hitchens

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence; a something cold and gloomy that floated out and settled on all the faces like a mourning veil. The circle broke up. The joy of laughter died on stiffened lips.

~ Joseph Conrad

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

~ Shannon Celebi

If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the Negro has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today - even in the most anti-racist movements, like the prison abolition movement - invested elsewhere. This is not to say that all oppositional political desire today is pro-white, but it is usually anti-Black, meaning it will not dance with death.

~ Frank B. Wilderson Iii

And you know who's especially stupid? People who look at how unexceptional and bland and boring they are and say, You know how I can remedy this? I will take solace in the accomplishments of my entire race. That way, I can draw attention away from the fact that I personally have not accomplished shit!

~ T.j. Kirk

There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

African-Amendment.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more dangerous than those who speak their minds, because they don't know what they're capable of.

~ Cristina García

Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming a seventeen-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded gun becomes a victim.

~ Jesmyn Ward

The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether— is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened. One wishes they would say so more often.

~ James Baldwin

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.

~ Trevor Noah

My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look back I realize she raised me like a white kid - not white culturally, but in the sense of believing that the world was my oyster, that I should speak up for myself, that my ideas and thoughts and decisions mattered.

~ Trevor Noah

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

~ Dashanne Stokes

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it’s there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly.

~ Luvvie Ajayi

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

~ Jodi Picoult

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

~ Angela Y. Davis

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

~ Neel Burton

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

~ Paul Beatty

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker