The Hate Race Quotes

“I learned to stay quiet. I learned that nobody much cared. I learned that it was probably my fault anyway, and that what they were doing to me was perfectly okay. This is how it alters us. This is how we change.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race

“You tell a teacher someone is calling you names. Blackie. Monkey girl. Golliwog. The teacher stares at you, exasperated, as if to say: Do you really expect me to do something about it? The next time you have a grievance, you look for a different teacher.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race

“As far as anyone knew, Australia was some bottom-of-the-earth island that had banned black folk from coming in for as long as possible, after shooting dead most of the ones they found there in the first place.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race

“If racism is a shortcoming of the heart, then experiencing it is an assault on the mind.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race