Albert Memmi Quotes

• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

  Albert Memmi

  Hands, Racism, Psychology

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

  Albert Memmi

  Understanding, Half, Colonization

  Albert Memmi (2013). “The Colonizer and the Colonized”, p.12, Routledge

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• Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown
  “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

  Albert Memmi

  Color, Racism, Kind

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