Quotes About Integration

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

The E.U. without Britain is like fish without chips.

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.

It's not always about 'Can you do the job?' It's about 'Can you fit in with the team?'

I feel like I'm cultured enough to fit into any environment.

From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Sometimes I feel like you have to be a different person - you kind of morph into that person that fits in.

The artificial leg was like an alien body, fitted to mine. Both had to respond to each other.

It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.

In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.