Tessa Thompson Quotes

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

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

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Black people were so angry at me. But we need to get some distance from the binary opposition we were raised in: evil white people and good black people. The world just isn't like that.

'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers that his white girlfriend's family is running a nasty racist conspiracy.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.

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

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer.

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

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

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.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

If you’re talking about American history, you’re talking about race.

There are people out there like Fox News who, every time a Black person complains in public of how we are treated in our society, is accused of “playing the race card.”

The American economy, the American society, the American unconscious are all racist.

Race is a fact of life and is not a problem unless people make it out to be so

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

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...