"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white." - Edward Estlin Cummings

"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery." - Frederick Douglass, The North Star

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line." - W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

"When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour." - Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

"If you could just be a nigger one Saturday night, you wouldn't never want to be a white man again as long as you live." - William Faulkner

"The so-called white races are really pinko-grey." - E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

"Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because--what with trolls and dwarfs and so on--speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Witches Abroad'