Jason Reynolds Quotes

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.

When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of 'intersectionality' than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

I struggle with racism every day

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Society is better off without certain people.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.