Quotes About Internalized Racism

#1. We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself."

Eve Ensler

#2. Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Dave Barry

#3. I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

Alanis Morissette

#4. And as for girls who try to stay away from me - my charm always wears them down."
"I'm up-to-date on my shots, so I'm pretty much immune to everything.

Jenny B. Jones

#5. It is better to be prepared for what could happen then to let happen what you are not prepared for.

Dawn Hartley

#6. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

Howard Schultz

#7. I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#8. When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Adam Sandler

#9. I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

#10. The larger society was willing to let the frustrations born of racism's violence become internalized and consume its victims. America's horror was only expressed when the aggression turned outward, when the ghetto and its controls could no longer contain its destructiveness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richard Whately

#12. One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

Shirley Ann Grau

#13. Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Maggie Nelson

#14. What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?

Michael Pollan

#15. When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be "real" Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.

Gloria E. Anzaldua