Edwidge Danticat Quotes

You face racism in small and large ways.

I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

I am for the negro against the crocodile, but for the white man against the negro.

Maybe Mexicans are lazy except when they’re taking everyone’s jobs.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

America is a white man's country.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.

It is not at all antisemitic to describe a state as racist.