Quotes About Race

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

The Democratic Party needs to stop telling black Americans how to think.

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our racial enlightenment.

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

You have to break clean. If you miss the break in the Derby, it's over.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.

'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we are going to have an honest dialogue about racism, we have to admit that people of color are having a different experience.

At the top, successful blacks, like David Lammy and Diane Abbot, have merged effortlessly into what continues to be a largely white elite: they have studied at Oxbridge and gone on to Oxbridge-style careers, such as that of an MP. But they have done so at the cost of losing much of their credibility with blacks on the street and in the ghettos.

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

The way 'TATB' depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.

If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the situation of the world. And, if you can't laugh at it, that's kind of a bummer.