Racism And Culture Quotes

“Privilege is the right to remain silent when others can’t.”
― Richie Norton

“We have to teach, tell, and show Black girls that they are beautiful ... that there is no standard of beauty, only defining it. And we, Black girls, define beauty, too. Our hair, shade, shape, and features are beautiful. We set trends, and the world follows.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“The idea that you can target an ethnic group with a collective crime, regardless of the specific innocence or guilt of the constituent elements of that group — there is absolutely nothing that's more racist than that.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“Look at the rainbow, it is made up of different colors, yet they do not split, because they know how beautiful they are when they stick together.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“We are a beautiful people. Even the way we face and overcome challenges is beautiful. Our beauty deserves to be elevated and celebrated.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“Racism is not on rise today, it just started to get socially viral...”
― Usman Aman

“At present we are facing two pandemics in the United States. The first is the coronavirus and the other is racism.”
― Germany Kent

“Black Diamonds

Black gemstones pillaged from Mother Earth and mined from Kemet,
Crystallized into rare gems under
centuries of pressure.
Yet, clarity remains pure under the
brutal heat of history
And the alluvial mining along the
coastlines of black beaches.
Whitewashing while extracting Nubian gems from sable sands,
Twelve million carats separated from
the soil of black lands.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist,
a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman
both sets are mad, Yazz
I know, Warris I know
-p58, from Girl, Woman, Other”
― Bernadine Evaristo

“His view of life has darkened since Mr. Banerji returned to India. There is some obscurity around this: it is not talked of much. My mother says he was homesick, and hints at a nervous breakdown, but there was more to it than that. “They wouldn’t promote him,” says my father. There’s a lot behind they (not we), and wouldn’t (not didn’t). “He wasn’t properly appreciated.” I think I know what this means. My father’s view of human nature has always been bleak, but scientists were excluded from it, and now they aren’t. He feels betrayed.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“The whitest places on planet earth happen to be the ugliest of all places.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Our botanist plucked the flowers and named them after himself. And my new husband swept aside all the offerings to the dead and set up his telescope on the altar, because the offering was clear of trees and he wanted the best vantage into the skies. When one of the islanders protested, and tried to push George away, Captain Lateshaw had the man flogged. Because order had to be maintained”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“If racism is the product of historical and socio-economic conditions, to the extent that these conditions can be changed, racism can eventually be abolished.”
― Rebecca Ruth Gould, Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom

“The social cohesion necessary for a thriving, inclusive society is undermined, as racism fosters an "us versus them" mentality, hindering collaboration and collective progress.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility—and vice versa.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“It's fair to assume that racists are stupid and ignorant. Intelligent people wouldn't ignore the obvious fact. The fact is that we're all similar. We all deserve to be treated with dignity.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“On one side of the tracks was the commercial center: the college, city hall, businesses, white residential neighborhoods-carefully kept that way, first by deliberate redlining and later by Jim Crow... Through the sixties, the city of Commerce was known as a "sundown town"- any Black person found of the streets after dark was in danger of being lynched. The only place where Black citizens were safe from the threat of white violence was also the only place Black people were legally allowed to reside: Norris Community, known fondly by younger generations as "the Hole".”
― Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

“We are not a collection of subspecies separated by biological canyons. Neither nature nor supernatural design imposed the different and often contradictory racial classification systems used around the world."

--"Race and Science", SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 3 2020”
― Guy P. Harrison

“Blacktivitiy"

Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright
And suspended over the splendid, sable sea.
Though all His works are wondrous beauties,
God’s greatest paintings are of you and me.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“We still tiptoe around having an honest discussion about what it really means to exist while Black in this country. All lives can’t matter if Black lives don’t matter. Demanding equality and equity isn’t radicalism. This is realism. We make these demands because the Constitution isn’t an accurate reflection of Black life in this country. If liberty escapes few, it escapes all.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“Human brain is fundamentally racist, for every brain is born with tribalism embedded in them meant for self-preservation. It takes a lot of resolve and ceaseless, civilized self-correction to break free from that tribalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“AMERICA IS DOING OKAY ONCE THESE WHITE RACIST BITCHES WHO ARE DOMESTIC TERRORIST TERRORIZING THE POPULACE THE WORLD THEIR FUCKED HEADS CANT CONTEND WITH ONCE THESE WHITE WOMEN MEN START TO DO SOMETHING SANE THEN YOU KNOW YOURE COMPLETELY FUCKED IN AMERICA UNTIL THEN FIGHT FOR MORE DEMOCRATIC HEALTHIER STANCES. WHEN THEY GO SANE DO AS THE AFGHAN PEOPLE DID AND ITS TIME TO RUN FOR THE EXIT SIGN”
― Gwen Calvo

“Von ihrer Familie entfremdet und schwanger von einem Mann, mit dem sie nicht gesehen werden durfte, war sie auf sich allein gestellt. Sie kam in den Kreißsaal, die Ärzte schnitten ihr den Bauch auf, griffen hinein und holten ein halb weißes, halb schwarzes Kind hervor, das gegen eine Reihe von Gesetzen, Statuten und Vorschriften verstieß - ich wurde schon als Verbrechen geboren. - S. 40”
― Trevor Noah, Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“An der H. A. Jack School erkannte ich, dass ich schwarz war. Vor meinem Erlebnis im Pausenhof hatte ich mich nie entscheiden müssen, doch als ich dazu gezwungen wurde, entschied ich mich für schwarz. Die Welt betrachtete mich als farbig, aber ich verbrachte mein Leben nicht damit, mich selbst zu betrachten. Ich betrachtete andere Menschen. Ich sah mich so, wie ich die anderen Menschen um mich herum sah, und diese Menschen waren schwarz. - S. 77”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“Melanin Maniacs (The Sonnet)

White guy writes a couple of sonnets and plays,
And he is idolized as an olympian deity.
Colored guy smashes the paradigm to ashes,
And it warrants absolute unacceptability.
Apparently, greatness is only greatness,
If it can be credited to a caucasian.
Otherwise they only end up pondering,
What's the deal with this non-white person!
It's a sad, sad world we live in,
All the advancement is on the outside.
Inside we are dumber than Donald Duck,
Which has ruined all hope for real insight.
Enough of this obsession with white aphrodisiacs!
It's time to act as humans, and not melanin maniacs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“… As the years went by, the principal reason for the Civil War – to preserve slavery – gradually became an unacceptable reason for the War, and the loss of such a War all the more unacceptable. …
Loss of such a War by men who were gallant but vastly outnumbered – the loss by an agrarian culture to a predatory industrial juggernaut – became an acceptable loss.”
― Joseph Addison Beck

“En gång i världen var USA det förlovade landet i världen för invandrare som vi. Vi har slitit som djur av tvång och av tacksamhet, och se hur de behandlar oss nu! Utlänningar blir behandlade som kriminella, om det ska vara vår tids Amerika åker jag hellre tillbaka till Indien.”
― Marc Levy

“My stomach twisted. I felt an ache inside me grow in anger. Prejudice and hatred were poisonous and all-consuming, spreading like a cancer every day.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“A dispute about race devolves into racism.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Here we do not think that see-through skin is truthful because it lets you see the person inside, or that solid skin is wiser because it shuts out prying eyes. We do not think that dark skin is fairer, or fair skin is finer. We do not think of skin at all. We simply live in it, and let live in it.”
― Dew Pellucid, The Crystilleries of Echoland