Albert Memmi Quotes

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.