Quotes on Racism

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.

When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one of my teachers.

Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.

Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.

Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.

You are, in fact, stigmatized as a racist, because, after all, you have know acknowledged that your nation practiced racism explicitly for four centuries. And, now, since the '60s, white Americans have been grappling with the stigma, trying prove that they are not racist, to prove the negative.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.

Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

Racism exists every day in France, Italy and England. Sometimes I am the victim of that - but just a little. I have the chance to be a high-level sportsman but I feel this problem for my brothers and sisters.

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.