The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.
Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.
I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.
I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.
I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.
I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.