Roger Ross Williams Quotes

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

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

I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.