Daniel Kaluuya Quotes

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

If you're a white person in the wrong neighborhood, you're an underdog.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

All God’s dangers ain’t White men.

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.

The working class is very under-represented in politics, literature, and everywhere else.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.

The commission of crime is not randomly or evenly distributed in our society. If you wanted to remove everything correlated with race, you couldn’t use anything.

One third of African American males are destined to be in prison sometime in their lifetime.

I'm told I'm a statistic. I'm told that my young black sisters are disease-ridden... but we are greater than what society tells us we are.

It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.