Racial Quotes

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it.

I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.

I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.