Kane Brown Quotes

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

Barack Obama is an educated fool. He is viewed as the white man in blackface in the community.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

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!

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

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

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

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

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

All God’s dangers ain’t White men.