Quotes About Race

Yaar, television has become a very exhausting medium for actors now. It's like you are racing against time in the race for TRPs, which can be very saturating.

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

I ran 10k once. I've got a medal.

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.

I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.

Gentlemen, start your egos.