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Ishmael Reed Writer
Racist

"I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor."

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John Oliver Comedian
Racist

"Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Racist

"Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Racist

"The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Racist

"Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser."

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Assata Shakur Activist
Racist

"The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
Racist

"Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated."

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Mac Miller Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
Racist

"I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Racist

"Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent."

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Rory Carroll Journalist
Racist

"South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Racist

"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."

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Florynce Kennedy Civil Rights Activist
Racist

"Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism."

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Monica Crowley Political Commentator
Racist

"Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature."

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