Quotes About Race

It's very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There's very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he's international. He looks at it different.

I've never had any problem with race in Boston, so I don't even want to talk about that. I never said anything about race.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

I think if you make a mistake, it had better be early in the race so you can bounce back from it.

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

Nobody is totally white in Brazil.

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

Obama kept blacks broke and angry the entire eight years he was in office.

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

I don't know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.

It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at the same time, I want my white sisters and brothers to understand that when we talk about income and wealth inequality, that disproportionately African Americans suffer a little more.

I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.