Quotes About Race

My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

Keep pushing people into their racial affinity groups, keep telling us to identify with our race and you know what will happen? Some White people will actually take you up on that and guess what? You'll have more real, actual racists.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched.

Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people who are that dark because it has always been stigmatised.

When Migos flew me out to see if I was actually making the beats, they didn't expect a white kid from Canada to be making harder beats than the guys in Atlanta. Being white in that environment, it was definitely different.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

You shouldn't eat anything new on race days. Eat simple foods, and ones that you can easily digest.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

I think that we need to make sure that we have frank conversations about race and color and discrimination within this country.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

The reality of it is, we have to have an enormous amount of corporate support to fund 43 race teams and all the things that go on. So there are always going to be brands that may not be ones that you would choose, but that are willing to make a significant investment.