It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day. Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done. Walter Mosley
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned.. Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation.. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Until the color of a...
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Haile Selassie
When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back
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Lee Benson
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it–whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is,...
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Harper Lee
And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.' He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with love: that was all that he'd asked for that...
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
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Muhammad Ali
More Quotes By Walter Mosley
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
