Larry Bird Quotes

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

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

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

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

WHITE man’s government ... should not be scoffed at; that it is a prejudice in the country that no man has a right to disregard

Tonight the Negro knows from his radio and television that a Congo native can be a locomotive engineer, but in Jackson [Mississippi] he cannot even drive a garbage truck.

The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience

White Man’s Road Thru Black Man’s Home!

When we finally got school buses for African American students in Georgia, the state legislature ordained that the front bumpers be painted black. Not even the school busses could be equal.

You know the discrimination: African-Americans couldn't go to certain schools, they couldn't use certain restrooms, there were other kinds of routine biases against them.

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair for the black community.

Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

I remember the first time that I realized that being black meant that I wasn't allowed certain things. It was in the fourth grade, and it was who I thought was my best friend not inviting me to his birthday party because I would be the only black kid there. It was the first time I ever felt restricted, and it certainly wasn't the last time.

While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.