Racism

““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.”

“I feel that I would rather face a lynching stake in civilised America than try to make a speech before the most intellectual and critical audience in the world.”

“I say—segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

“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.”

“Segregation now...segregation tomorrow...segregation forever.”

“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”

“Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you.”

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