Quotes About Racism In Black Boy

#1. I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

Peter Davison

#2. Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

#3. What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Jonathan Lethem

#4. Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.

Harlan Coben

#5. I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

Kajol

#6. I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.

Richard Wright

#7. Only Aviva's long habit of taking the temperature of her own racism, of her biases and stereotypes about young black males (or about the iron-hard perdurance of their grandmothers) enabled Aviva to set aside, for the time being, her gut reaction - the boy was trouble - and admire Titus's stillness.

Michael Chabon

#8. It reminded Lacy of running into someone you hadn't seen for a while, and finding her bald and missing her eyebrows: you knew she was in the throes of chemotherapy, but pretended you didn't, because it was easier that way for both of you.

Jodi Picoult

#9. Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Martin Freeman

#10. I used to hate being recognised.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#11. I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.

Kate Bosworth

#12. Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

Denis Waitley