Racism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Home Page » Categories » Racism

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them - inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the...

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. — James Baldwin The Fire Next...

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs. — Joseph Conrad Heart of...

As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss...

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For...

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

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

Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, progressive Cubans were happy to downplay the survival of the Indians since those who promoted , and sought to praise and promote Cuba's Indian...

There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in...

Today Birthdays

1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson 1918 - Nelson Mandela 1950 - Richard Branson 1969 - Elizabeth Gilbert 1964 - Wendy Williams 1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1950 - Jack Layton 1952 - Per Petterson 1921 - John Glenn 1934 - Edward Bond 1906 - S. I. Hayakawa 1913 - Red Skelton 1900 - Nathalie Sarraute 1950 - Mark Udall 1980 - Kristen Bell 1726 - George Savile 1950 - Shahid Khan 1975 - Daron Malakian 1957 - Nick Faldo 1720 - Gilbert White 1911 - Hume Cronyn 1962 - Jack Irons 1865 - Laurence Housman 1940 - James Brolin

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Categories »

Today Birthdays

Popular quotes

Categories