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

blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as untouchables. — Greg Iles True Evil

Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear? Why not, Papa? Because they'll take you away. Why? Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is... not us. Who are Jewish people? You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes? Yes. Well, he's Jewish. I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license? ... you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear? — Markus Zusak The Book Thief

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...

The hands of Hitler were filthy, but those of the United States were not clean. Our government had accepted, was still accepting, the subordination of black people in what we claimed was a democratic society. Our government threw Japanese families into concentration camps on the racist supposition that anyone Japanese—even if born in this country—could not be allowed to remain free. — Howard Zinn You Can't Be...

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...

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