Tommy Morrison Quotes

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like 'White Hope.' What about other guys like Tex Cobb - they never had those labels?

It doesn't even feel like racism is real. It just feels like the weirdest ploy, like we're just being had on so many levels. It's even kind of funny when you think about it. A reason not to like someone is 'because you're black.' C'mon, man. How dumb is that?

Let's put the cards on the table. Real is real. If I was a different complexion, I think people and fans would treat me a different way.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

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.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

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

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.