Best Racial Identity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.”

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Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Source: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.”

Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“If young children are frequently exposed to books containing images of people who do not look like them, or resources in the home corner which do not reflect their culture (cooking utensils, dressing-up clothes.... food), then they will come to believe that their attributes are of little value - this will have a negative impact on their racial identity. All children need to see positive images of people who look like them to enable them to think that they too can be successful and this is especially important for children who are racially minoritised. -Dr Stella Louis”

Children Racial Identity

Book:Representation Matters: Becoming an anti-racist educator

Source: Representation Matters: Becoming an anti-racist educator

“By demonstrating excellence in whatever skin we wear, we challenge ignorance by our very existence.”

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Author:Adam Howard

“Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.”

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Book:Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Source: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“The trouble with you," Parvathi said with a wisdom beyond her years, "Is that you don't know who you want to be. Girl or boy. Chinese or Malay." "Ya-lah you!" Fatima said. "No wonder the kids in your school call you OCBC." There was a bank in Singapore called the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC in short. So some cruel kid in school played on the initials of the bank to make fun of Peranakans. They jeered, "Orang Cina Bukan Cina." The words translated as Chinese person, not Chinese.”

Singapore Racial Identity Peranakan

Book:Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965

Source: Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965

“When a white man goes to the pub, he is a socializer; a Brown man in a bar is a drunkard. A white arrogant man is an alpha male; headstrong Indians are pricks. A white man sleeping around is a lover; an Indian on multiple dates is a womanizer. White men make love, we Brown Indians f*ck”

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Book:Saint Richard Parker

Source: Saint Richard Parker

“Not having a group consciousness, whites often respond defensively when grouped with other whites, resenting what they see as unfair generalizations. Individualism prevents us from seeing ourselves as responsible for or accountable to other whites as members of a shared racial group that collectively benefits from racial inequality.”

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Book:What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

“Because whites are not socialized to see ourselves collectively, we don't see our group's history as relevant. Therefore, we expect people of color to trust us as soon as they meet us. We don't see ourselves as having to earn that trust.”

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Book:What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.”

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Author:Mat Johnson

“It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.”

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Author:Arthur Kemp

“I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.”

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Author:Rachael Price

“Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.”

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Author:Deborah Rhode

“I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.”

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Author:Sho Baraka

“What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.”

“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

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Book:White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Source: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

“Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.”

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Author:Jared Taylor

“Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.”

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Book:Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action

Source: Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action