"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

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"You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to you what it feels like to be black when I don't understand it and don't want to and spend all my time trying to forget it? I don't want to hate anybody - but now maybe, I can't love anybody either - are we friends? Can we really be friends?"

James Baldwin, American Novelist

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"Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

Racism, Soldiers, States

"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Racism, Discrimination, Injustice, Social

"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

Racism, History, Struggle, Success

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

Ann Coulter, American Journalist

Racism,

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

Linda Chavez, American Author

Racism, Cruelty, Rights, Humanrights, Prejudice

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

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"Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines."

"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"

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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."

"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."

"One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy."

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

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