Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

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

Many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history.

The essence of racism is prejudice coupled with power ... Our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population.

Modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States

Why aren’t Black people this outraged over Black-on-Black killings?.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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.

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

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

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

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.