Jamie Foxx 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.

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

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin.

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

I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

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!

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

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 never though much about race.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

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

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Race is everything.

Racial discourses and theories are socially constructed ... but repudiating race theory does not make it disappear in politics. Race matters ... because it functions as a marker and an anchor to establish and repudiate identity, status and position ... Races exist because racism exists.

The Southern institution of racial segregation or racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth which arose from the chaos and confusion of the Reconstruction period. Separation promotes racial harmony. It permits each race to follow its own pursuits, and its own civilization. Segregation is not discrimination

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

It’s time we faced facts. Southern people just don’t like Black people.