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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.

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

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

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

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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