Racism Quotes

"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone" "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen " "Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in a perilous mythology." "The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black." "The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever." "The truth about racism: It’s all about control." "Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience."