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“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller.”
― Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

“Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and marking herself as such felt inaccurate, as though she were being simmered down, reduced until she were invisible.”
― Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

“But given that the children are products of the same biological stock, a much more plausible explanation for the differences in performance has to do with differences in parents' rearing and expectations of their first child compared with their younger children.”
― Robert Livingston, The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations

“Frankly, the racial-harmony shit put Pepper on edge. The majority of the film crew were hippie freaks, but Zippo and the director of photography and Angela, the lady who did the wardrobe and makeup, were black. The white people did what they were told.

This was America, melting pot and powder keg. Surely something was about to pop off. It kept not happening.

Pepper had never worked jobs with white people before. Pulling shit in Newark, then uptown in those days, that was the reality. It was not done. Occasionally he'd get asked to join a crew with a white wheelman or a bankroll and that was a sign to wait for the next gig. His current refusals were simple common sense. Pepper barely trusted Negro crooks--why extend the courtesy to some cracker motherfucker who'd fuck you over first chance? Sometimes black people fell over themselves trying to vouch for a white man who hadn't wronged them. Yet.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“Gabby transferred to my school in the fourth grade. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and was tanner than most of the other White girls in my class for no apparent reason. In one of my clearer memories of her, her face is snarled and in a shrill, whiny voice she is saying to me, "Stop lying, you're not an Indian!"

Nine-year-old me didn't have many years of experience with racism. This was the first time someone had even questioned the validity of my ethnicity, let alone outright called me a liar. Back then, I didn't have the ability or knowledge to point to the media representation of Native Americans to show Gabby how she had been taught to think that my culture was gone. At nine years old I lacked the words to explain that her ignorance did not and would never define who I was. Those tools simply hadn't been given to me yet. So I punched her in the face.”
― Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“Most White people saw me as Hispanic, and people of other races often thought I was the same as them.”
― Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves positioned atop the racial hierarchy.

He thought for a moment and then said, "Some of them will never give it up.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“the concepts race and class must not be confused. In studying the history of the development of human society the really existing class struggle must not be replaced by an invented ‘race struggleâ€�. From the above it may be seen that it is typical of racism to confuse the biological category of race with other categories of a social character, such as nation and class. The unprincipled way in which racism identifies race with nation or class depending on whether it is necessary to justify war between nations or exploitation within one nation, shows clearly that racism is unscientific and reactionary.”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, Ras-ras Umat Manusia

“Why do the racists insist on their false views? The answer is a simple one. The theory of ‘higherâ€� and ‘lowerâ€� races, of the right of one race to dominate over another, justifies war between nations â€� it is the ideological mask concealing imperialist politics. The racists equate the class struggle in human society with the struggle going on in the animal kingdom; they make use of the reactionary theory of social-Darwinism that developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This theory states that modern human society is governed by biological laws that are the same as those that operate in the animal kingdom â€� the brute struggle for existence, the survival of the fittest, the extinction of the unfit. The racists, like the social-Darwinists, maintain that the division of human society into classes is the result of biological inequality and is due to natural selection. In this way racism attempts to use the laws of nature to explain social inequality in capitalist society. The racists developed the theory of social-Darwinism and maintained that people belonging to a certain class possess certain racial features.”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, Ras-ras Umat Manusia

“The raison d'être of racism is the substantiation and defense of the false idea of the biological inequality of the races of man.”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, Ras-ras Umat Manusia

“Various ‘race theoriesâ€� are very widespread among reactionary scientists in some countries who regard the ruling class of their own nation as the ‘higherâ€� race and the working people as the ‘lowerâ€� race, or classify nations other than their own as ‘lowerâ€� races and make their own nation the ‘higher raceâ€�. In this way they unreasonably confuse the grouping of people by classes and by other socio-economic factors with their biological grouping. It is precisely by means of race theories that the ‘whiteâ€� imperialists justify the enslavement and exploitation of the colonial peoplesâ€�”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, Ras-ras Umat Manusia

“Se suele decir que los pilotos son egoístas, ególatras. Yo mismo he dicho que son egoístas. Me equivoqué. Para ser campeón no debes tener ego alguno. No debes existir como entidad independiente. Debes entregarte a la carrera. No serías nada sin tu equipo, tu coche, tu calzado, tus neumáticos. No hay que confundir confianza y conciencia de uno mismo con ±ð²µ´Çí²õ³¾´Ç.”
― Garth Stein, Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog

“Sé una cosa sobre las carreras bajo la lluvia. Sé que se trata de mantener el equilibrio. Sé que se trata de anticipar lo que va a ocurrir y tener paciencia, Sé que para tener é³æ¾±³Ù´Ç cuando llueve se requieren habilidades especiales en el manejo del coche, ¡Pero correr bajo la lluvia también tiene que ver con la mente! Con ser dueño del propio cuerpo. Con sentir que el coche no es más que una extensión del cuerpo. Sentir que la pista es una extensión del vehículo, y la lluvia una extensión de la pista y el cielo una extensión de la lluvia. Sentir que tú no eres tú; tú eres todo. Y todo eres tú.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The supporters of the racist theory preach such reactionary ideas as the primary division of mankind into higher and lower racial groups; the ancient, inborn aristocratic nature of the ruling classes; the necessity for maintaining the purity of the higher race; the need for the propagation and perfection of the higher race; the planned mass destruction (genocide) of the lower race. The racists make extensive use of the Malthusian idea of ‘overpopulation.”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, The Origin of the Man

“Marx and Engels established the fact that the history of human society, beginning from the slave-owning societies, is essentially the history of the class struggle. The pseudo-scientists, the ideologists of imperialism, strive to prove that the struggle between races and not between classes is basic in human history. When reactionary scientists substitute the struggle between races for the class struggle as the chief motive force in history they are consciously falsifying history.”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, The Origin of the Man

“It is believed that the ancestors of the American or Red Indian race began their migration to North America and then from North to South some 25,000 or less years ago. The probable road they took was from Asia across the Bering Isthmus that formerly existed where the present straits are situated. This isthmus became approachable only at the time the glaciers were receding; until that time the entire American continent had been almost unpopulated...”
― Mikhail Nesturkh, Ras-ras Umat Manusia

“Everybody in the world was in a position to give them orders. White women said, “Do this.â€� White children said, “Give me that.â€� White men said, “Come here.â€� Black men said, “Lay down.â€� The only people they need not take orders from were black children and each other. But they took all of that and re-created it in their own image. They ran the houses of white people, and knew it. When white men beat their men, they cleaned up the blood and went home to receive abuse from the victim. They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“I realize now that worrying about what others think of me doesn’t matter and shouldn’t have been so concerned about others' opinions. I am now at the point in my life, where if you are black, white, gay, straight, or somewhere in between, I don’t care…unless you are a fucking asshole and then go fuck yourself.”
― Michael J. Mantsourani, Life is Staged: A Memoir on Finding Myself in High School Theater

“There's a whole lot of things you don't know about niggers. And God forbid you should! There's a whole lot of things you don't know about white girls . . about yourself, Virginia. And God forbid you should! That's what we men are here for.”
― Waldo Frank, Holiday

“All the world's color: and I must hold my pride against the world. Pride is white. History is white. The Christ is white. Honor is white, and birthright. All else . . color.”
― Waldo Frank, Holiday

“The students on campuses with such a [Confederate] statue had higher levels of implicit racial bias. This finding speaks to the haunting effects of historical expressions of racism. Not only do these statues cause pain for many black students and faculty; they may help to sustain implicit anti-black bias.”
― Geoffrey L Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Library Edition

“A know that some rich, white looking people don't want to have anything to do with the likes of us. But this world is a big place and have enough space for all the different race of people that God make â€� black, white, yellow, red and all the ones that don't know where they belong, like the girl you fight with at school. Don't let anybody make you feel less than what you are. Work hard and do your best and even though I not a Christian but God must help you one way of the other.”
― Colleen Smith-Dennis, Inner City Girl

“Finish well, don't finish fast.”
― Joshua A. Adebodun

“Theodore, Reed, Spade, Ashford, and Niko were standing at the other side of the lake, already half naked. Kilian jogged up to join them, pulling his shirt over his head.
This time next week, the Ironside fans were going to have an aneurism.”
― Jane Washington, Plier

“Slavery violated agency, a fundamental Latter-Day Saint tenet, and it removed an enslaved person's choices. It crushed an enslaved person's economic, social, and political potential, and most significantly, it tore families apart.”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk about Race and Priesthood

“Outsiders... projected their fear of race mixing onto the Latter-Day Saints almost from the beginning. Some Missouri residents... complained that the Saints had 'opened an asylum for rogues and vagabonds and free blacks,' while others were concerned that the Saints promoted black 'ascendancy over whites.'... Four days after Phelp's 'extra' appeared in print, a crowd of Jackson County residents stormed his printing office and destroyed all remaining copies of the extra as well as the original July issue of the Star. They scattered Phelp's type and the press itself and demolished his office and home. They seized Bishop Edward Partridge and Charles Allen and hauled them to the town square, where they tarred and feathered them... It marked the beginning of the Latter-Day Saint expulsion from Jackson County. Before the end of the year, some 1,200 Latter-Day Saints would be driven from their homes, charged, at least in part, with being too inclusive.”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood

“Elder Heber C. Kimball told an audience of Latter-Day Saints, 'We are not accounted as white people, and we don't want to live among them.' He insisted, 'I had rather live with the buffalo in the wilderness.”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood

“Brigham Young answered [William McCary who had...] complained that he was 'hypocritically abused' among the Latter-Day Saints and had experienced racism... with an appeal to the New Testament and the broad commonality among all of God's children. Paraphrasing Acts 17:26, Young said, 'It's nothing to do with the blood, for of one blood has God made all flesh.' In an effort to calm McCary's worries, Young reinforced the commonality of the entire human family. Not only did God create racial diversity out of 'one blood'; Young insisted that Latter-Day Saints did not discriminate even in distributing priesthood authority. He then cited Q. Walker Lewis in the Lowell, Massachusetts branch as his proof: 'We [h]av[e] one of the best Elders[,] and African in Lowell---a barber,' he told McCary. Even Black men were welcome and eligible for the priesthood, Young affirmed. The interview continued in somewhat arbitrary directions after that but eventually returned to McCary's standing among the Saints. 'I am not a Pres[iden]t, or a leader of the p[eo]pl[e],' McCary lamented, but merely a 'common bro[the]r,' something he attributed to the fact that he was 'a little shade darker.' Brigham Young again asserted a universal ideal and told McCary, 'We don't care about the color.' McCary liked hearing that from Brigham Young but still wondered if other apostles shared the same sentiments. 'Do I hear that from all?' he asked. Those present responded with a unified 'aye.' Brigham Young counseled McCary to ignore 'what the p[eo]pl[e] say, shew by your actions that you don't care for what they say---all we do is serve the Lord with all our hearts,' he insisted... William McCary... [was] married [to] Lucy Stanton, a white Latter-Day Saint... McCary was a formerly enslaved [convert] from Mississippi [who attempted to pass as] Native American...”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood

“I am not Black, I am Cocoa.”
― Mitta Xinindlu