Relations Quotes

At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me

Never take someone for granted based on your perception and act on it, for that would yield in ultimate disaster!

Loneliness is better than bad company.

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.

white is not always light and black is not always dark.

To understand a person it takes time but to find a person who understand you takes a life.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Some people are worth the world

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.

notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination, growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.

That’s the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

We want to remember that America is at its best when it’s struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.

Beauty salons, like churches, are places where people tend to unburden themselves and bare their souls.

It It only when I am alone that I really feel connected to the entire universe.

Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure you're well. When is your funeral?

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, " she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.