Gary Owen Quotes

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

If a white man says, "give me liberty or give me death" in any country, white men all over the world stand up and applaud. But if a black man says the same thing--the exact same words--he is created like a dangerous criminal.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases are impacting how we deal with others, there will be no change.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.