Racial Slur Quotes

“You can’t ‘get over’ something that is still happening. Which is why black Americans can’t ‘get over’ slavery or Jim Crow. It may be quite a while—likely past all of our lifetimes—before white people will be able to say ‘nigger’ without harming black people.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”
― Percival Everett