Home / Topics / Racism Quotes

Racism Quotes

Browse 3161 quotes about Racism.

Racism Quotes

“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc”

“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”

Thinking Persons Country Whole White Race Vision Racism Claims Relation Fog Slow Down Race Relations Impediments Whole Truth

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.”

Thinking Years Ends America Culture Individual Black Vision Perspective Racism Broads Urban Outrage Years Of Life Militancy Dubois

Author:Manning Marable

“No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.”

Firsts Matter Done Vision Racism No Matter What South Racist South Africa

Author:Joe Slovo

“Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.”

Mind Vision Racism Judgement Thick Mist Phenomenal Great Minds

Author:J. Nozipo Maraire

“I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .”

Country Black Vision Racism Feminist Sexism Comment Invited Conferences Inseparable Homophobia Input Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is Black Feminist

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.”

Eye Vision Plans Racism

Author:David Bowie

“Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”