“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” Has BeensPoetryLiteratureBlackLinesOur LivesColorRacismCensorship Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education.” TogetherBeliefOur LivesIgnoranceRacismOne TimeDessert Author:John Assaraf
“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” IfsLooksPoliticalHeavenBlackWhitePowerfulOur LivesRacismResponseTreatedLook UpWhat IfInferiorsGod Is There Book:RFK: collected speeches Source: RFK: collected speeches
“Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.” ThinkingWayWantHumansPersonsOur LivesRacismRootsFundamentalsErrorsSelfishnessAbortionJustifyStemSymptomsPoisonousHuman Error Author:Alveda King
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.” MayRealFacesPoliticalChoicesGamesHouseDifferencesOur LivesConditionsMastersBeatsRacismToolsTerrorGenuineUrgesHomophobiaLoathingOur ChoicesPlace And Time Author:Audre Lorde
“Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.” WayProblemRealityJusticeOur LivesDrinkDiversityRacismSocial JusticeShoesCupsTiesSexismTopicsDefining Author:Paula Rothenberg
“By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.” NumbersPovertyRecordsOur LivesEconomicRacismOfficialsEconomic PowerConfluence Book:Men We Reaped: A Memoir Source: Men We Reaped: A Memoir