Eminem Quotes

When I think of the trials and tribulations that black men go through in America and that black artists went through, I feel very privileged.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

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

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

I'm still black in the eyes of America.

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn't get any criticism. Because I'm white, people expect so much more out of me. That's a little unfair, but life isn't fair.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

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

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.