Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

Now we already know that the white supremacist Western scholars are going to object and oppose any evidence that shows an Afrikan influence on Greek civilization, or any other part of Europe. Their basic premise is to give Afrikan people credit for nothing

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

dominating populations suppress the history of their victims, destroy the practice of the culture of their victims, prevent the victims from coming to understand themselves as a part of a cultural family, teach systematically the ideology of white supremacy, control the socialization process, control the accumulation of wealth, and perform segregation and apartheid.

The Declaration of Independence was written by white men for white men.

Today, the white West--like Germany after the Nazi defeat--lives in a kind of secular penitence in which the slightest echo of past sins brings down withering condemnation. There is now a cloud over white skin where there once was unquestioned authority

Educating Negroes is pointless and dangerous. The state should ensure that tax dollars from white citizens should only go to white schools.