Fo’ it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very hard fo’ very long, we don’t own suffering. Abuse, slavery, injustice, an tribulation be part of human living. An if there be a question that be worth axing, rather than it be bout white or black, we might be wanting to ax how come it’s always us humans who be suffering an be mean to one another. We might want a be axing that instead. From: "Accidents of Birth Trilogy
Christina CarsonTags: love race-relations happenstance-of-birth solving-human-problems
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind
most of our colors are amazingly the same.
Tags: humanity people spirituality diversity color racism race-relations human-society xenophobia ethnicity multicultural multiculturalism human-family human-beings the-soul world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings teaching-diversity coexistence global-village ethnic-groups multiculturalismo anti-racism day-to-end-racism ethnic-cultures
We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.
Johnnie Dent Jr.Tags: politics race-relations racial-discrimination
white is not always light and black is not always dark.
Habeeb AkandeTags: evil good black stereotypes race-relations white misconceptions
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference. What can I say to a man who asks that? All I can do is try to explain to him why he asks the question. You have looked at us for years as different from you that you may never see us really. You don’t understand because you think of us as second-class humans. We have been passive and accommodating through so many years of your insults and delays that you think the way things used to be is normal. When the good-natured, spiritual-singing boys and girls rise up against the white man and demand to be treated like he is, you are bewildered. All we want is what you want, no less and no more. (Chapter 13).
Shirley ChisholmTags: human-rights race-relations american-politics have-and-have-nots
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).
Shirley ChisholmTags: race-relations
I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn.” Aibileen shakes her head. “I used to believe in em. I don’t anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain’t.
Kathryn StockettTags: equality race-relations social-norms equal-rights
J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
Bernice L. McFaddenTags: race race-relations mississippi race-america
You're not a bad man or a stupid man, what you are is a white man.
Barbra-Lee StephenTags: race-relations
Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!
Anthony MaraisTags: race racism race-relations
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