Quotes from Bubba Wallace

I watch too many scary movies.

The Ahmaud Arbery video was the final straw for me in being silent. That shook me to the core like nothing has in the past. Something flipped inside of me to be more vocal and stand up for racial equality and make sure we get a hold on that and change the face of this world and get it to a better place.

Ever since being vocal in being a human being, I've been proud to kind of step away from Bubba Wallace the athlete and to step up as Bubba Wallace the human and not be so, 'I don't know If I can touch that;' 'I don't know if I can say these types of things.' I'm letting that guard down.

Our voices carry so much more weight than Joe Schmo from down the street.

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

I'll go out there and prove to everybody that I belong to the Cup Series.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

This is a dream come true to race for 'The King' Richard Petty Motorsports, the iconic No. 43 and for all the fans and partners that have and continue to support this team.

We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.

We're definitely going to get some flak each and every day, whether it's social-media keyboard warriors, or people in person.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road.

I wouldn't want to be the guy who went out and won a championship in a horrible year but never made a comment on the issues that we are dealing with in our society.

Systemic racism is a problem from every aspect of life.

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

I encourage people to have those tough conversations just to educate yourself on what goes on and how we can create equality in the world and grow together as one.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

Everybody should live their lives to the fullest with no hassles, no hold-backs, no matter what age, what color you are... I don't have an issue talking about it, taking the forefront of it.

My mom told me, every weekend, always stay positive no matter what the circumstances. Stuff's gonna go down. It's not gonna be your race. Media is gonna take the bad before the good.

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

This is a team sport.

You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I'm representing that culture and that background. But a lot of background pressure, I don't really put that on me. I know I have enough pressure to go out and perform every week.