Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

If there are [any good white people], I haven't met them. Where are they?

Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.

I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit.