Ibram X Kendi Quotes

“[Speaking with John McWhorter]
I take umbrage at the lionisation of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed motherfuckers like Ibram X. Kendi. Who couldn't carry my book bag. He hasn't read a fucking thing. If you ask him what Nietzsche said, he would have no idea. He's an unserious, superficial, empty-suited, lightweight - he's not our equal, not even close.”
― Glenn C. Loury

“We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to not be racist. Now let's know how to be antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Wy is Ebonics broken English by English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin?”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“She taught me that the power of the spoken word is in the power of the word spoken.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“I became a Black patriarch because my parents and the world around me did not strictly raise me to be a Black feminist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist