Racists Quotes

“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
― John Henrik Clarke

“I can hear you say, "What a horrible, irresponsible bastard!" And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me? And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am. Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Racism is one of the most common results of the combination of stupidity and the ability to see.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Racists cling to the false notion that we are separate. They refuse to acknowledge that they are connected to, and even descended from, other people of different skin color. Their egos demand that they be superior and that others be inferior. This is how they seek to justify their hatred of, and cruelty towards, others.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

“Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Oops! We thought he had a gun!’ So you shot me in the back three times ’cause you thought I had a gun? I was gonna sue, but they said they was gonna kill me. I was 18 years old, I didn’t have nobody, I didn’t have all this. They kept pickin’ me up, kept lockin’ my ass up, beating me, until I dropped the lawsuit. When I dropped the lawsuit, that’s when everything stopped. That’s what the fuck happened to me. I was terrorized by some terrorists.”
― Jeff Smith, Ferguson in Black and White

“Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians: Stories

“Moral and educational suasion breathes the assumption that racist minds must be changed before racist policy, ignoring history that says otherwise. Look at the soaring White support for desegregated schools and neighborhoods decades after the policies changed in the 1950s and 1960s. Look at the soaring White support for interracial marriage decades after the policy changed in 1967. Look at the soaring support for Obamacare after its passage in 2010. Racist policymakers drum up fear of antiracist policies through racist ideas, knowing if the policies are implemented, the fears they circulate will never come to pass. Once the fears do not come to pass, people will let down their guards as they enjoy the benefits. Once they clearly benefit, most Americans will support and become the defenders of the antiracist policies they once feared.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Did he insult you? I mean us, the race?"

"Not directly. Like most white racists, he was paternalistic. I would have preferred he slap me than that he talk down upon me. Then I could retaliate in kind.”
― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

“America was big and blighted in gamey spots by racial intolerance and violence. Visiting relatives in Georgia? Here are the safe routes around the sundown towns and cracker territories where you might not make it out alive, the towns and counties to be avoided if you valued your life.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“If it looks like a goose, honks like a goose and steps like a goose, then it’s probably a Nazi, and there’s honestly only one kind of person who complains when I say ‘I don't sell books to racists' whatever they are calling themselves right now.”
― Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

“Fear Breeds RACISM”
― Henry Johnson Jr.

“RACIST: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.

ANTIRACIST: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies are racist. This is not to ignore that White people have massacred and enslaved millions of indigenous and African peoples, colonized and impoverished millions of people of color around the globe as their nations grew rich, all the while producing racist ideas that blame the victims. This is to say their history of pillaging is not the result of the evil genes or cultures of White people. There’s no such thing as White genes. We must separate the warlike, greedy, bigoted, and individualist cultures of modern empire and racial capitalism (more on that later) from the cultures of White people. They are not one and the same, as the resistance within White nations shows, resistance admittedly often tempered by racist ideas.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Racist” and “antiracist” are like peelable name tags that are placed and replaced based on what someone is doing or not doing, supporting or expressing in each moment. These are not permanent tattoos. No one becomes a racist or antiracist. We can only strive to be one or the other. We can unknowingly strive to be a racist. We can knowingly strive to be an antiracist. Like fighting an addiction, being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Some White people do not identify as White for the same reason they identify as not-racist: to avoid reckoning with the ways that Whiteness—even as a construction and mirage—has informed their notions of America and identity and offered them privilege, the primary one being the privilege of being inherently normal, standard, and legal. It is a racial crime to be yourself if you are not White in America. It is a racial crime to look like yourself or empower yourself if you are not White. I guess I became a criminal at seven years old.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Racism is just one of several illnesses passed on to children by their parents.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Sometimes, I wonder which is better: a blatant bigot or an oblivious racist.”
― Luvvie Ajayi, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“To see the absurdity of racism, some people first had to be blind.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Turn into a mad wind,
And blow away the rigidity.
Now the savagery must end,
To do that we must rise as almighty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Oh yes, there are racists everywhere. Hatred is universal. There are no geographical barriers to narrow, bitter little minds.”
― Douglas Skelton, Thunder Bay

“Can we ever really know to what extent this man [Mark Twain] or his book [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] was, or is, racist? When we identify racism in the book, aren't we really just identifying racism in the culture out of which it came? Is it fair to expect Twain to have vaulted himself out of his own time and place and arrive, clean-booted and upright, in our own? Isn't the book still funny and deep? Aren't I actually enjoying it? How does one do the complicated math of Ultimate Racism: If we determine that, relative to our own time, Twain was a 40 percent racist, while relative to his own, he was only a 12 percent racist, or was in fact a 0 percent racist--what do we know, really?”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“No offence to horses
but KATIE HOPKINS
looks like 1”
― Andy Carrington, Cameron Fucks Dead Pigs & I Got Called a Scrounger

“Believe you me, soon all supremacist and bigoted tenets of the mind will be deemed as severe mental illness legally requiring rigorous medical treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“For those whose eyes see nothing else but difference in skin colour, kindly digest this ꓽ I have black skin, no doubt, but my teeth and eyeballs are white. This means that I am not totally black. I have seen so many white people with black hair. This means that they are not totally white. It’s all like an exchange of gifts.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“In fact, I've yet to encounter anyone in America who has openly admitted to being a racist. Nothing is more offensive to an American than being called a racist. We'll forgive you sooner for punching our mother in the throat or kicking our beloved puppy in the face. Even white supremacists don't consider themselves to be racist. They're just "racial realists" or "American Identitarians" who believe in preserving the purity of the white identity.”
― Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American