Tupac Shakur Quotes

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

People don't want to be thought of as racists ... all polls tend to over-report tolerance.

Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I want the white people to understand my people.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Though we are dark-skinned, we are men, and have souls.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

Civil Rights is all right for you. You don’t have and Negroes in your district.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.