Kerry James Marshall Quotes

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions.

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.

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

Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.

I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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.

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.

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

These white people think this country belongs to them—they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedly-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians.

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

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

When Trump was elected, it gave white men - particularly white men in power - full, unfettered permission to say or do whatever they want without consequence.

I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives.

No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.