Race

“Thurgood [Marshall] says that the only people who are safe in the South are the women—white and Negro. I don't know how he's got that figured. But, so far, I've never been subjected to any violence.”

““I needed to do something, so they don’t look at the color but the artistic way of (what) I am doing.””

“In singularity, subjectivity is always white, and only the white body embodies knowledge.”

“Who is speaking about it? Who has the right and the credentials to produce it, describe it, comment upon it, or at least present opinions about it?”

“Si la différence existe, toutes les différences ne sont pas pour autant égales entre elles.”

“The black man had to be revolutionary in order to have self-respect.”

“We were those sensitive might-have-beens who had knocked on the door of white civilisation.”

“My African background gives me identity.”

“When you honour a Polynesian, you honour the tribe, the island, the race.”

“We need to collect the scattered forces of the race, and there is no rallying-ground more favorable than Africa.”

“prestasse assim uma homenagem à raça negra”

“Black is not a color; it’s an attitude. It’s the attitude of independence, respect and dignity.”

“It is absolutely important for the Malays to obtain closer ties with the other people in this country.”

“Under present circumstances, and by means of the usual techniques, the difference between the intellectual capacity of Africans and Europeans cannot be scientifically determined.”

“reaction to my experience as a black man in a social world created by white people primarily for their own ends”

“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”

“Desiring to prove the sense I had of my obligations to God, I endeavoured to instruct the people of my own colour in the word of God.”

“An apartheid-like system is when we are talking about two peoples who live in the same territory.”

“I sincerely hope it will not go through the Aborigine Welfare Board.”

“You have almost exterminated our people but there are enough of us remaining to expose the humbug of your claim, as white Australians, to be a civilised, progressive, liberal and humane nation.”