Michael Nutter Quotes

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

If black or red skins or any other skin of color is disgraceful to God, it appears that he has disgraced himself a great deal—for he has made fifteen colored people to one white and placed them here upon this earth.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

Race is still real and you got to recognize it.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

We simply cannot insist that race should not matter when everything in life argues that it does.

The Reddest of the Blacks

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

The Southern Negro is not an incurably ignorant ape. The Southern white masses are not biologically degenerate.

If you walk out of a movie that's meant to be about race in our country, and you're feeling good and happy, then that movie didn't tell you all of the truth. It's too big of an issue, and it's too complicated for you to feel good. It's something you should feel like you need to talk about.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.