Morgan Freeman Quotes

Your not black enough. If you are black, all you have to do is wear a dashiki and pump your fist, and you’ll get all the money you want.

To talk about race in America is to explore the wilderness inside ourselves and to come to terms with a history that we’d rather conceal.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

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...

Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.

To be American in the United States means to be white, protestant, and very rich. This excludes almost entirely black people and anyone else who can be easily identified.

We call each other colored people, black people, but not negro…

Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

A black man is no more an undeveloped white man than a rabbit is an undeveloped hare.

In the South the white men used to call all Black men “boy” until they got to be old enough to call them “uncle.” It was sex-the feat of sexual competition. When they used to get liquored up and talk they would always say, “The schoolroom leads to the bedroom” to justify school segregation.

In the South in the 1960’s you lived in a state of terrorism if your skin was black.

I spent 23 days in jail—two days longer than a man who killed his wife.

For people who have been slaves for 150 years doing all the work to be called lazy and shiftless by the man who was sitting on the porch—that is a phenomenon in itself.

Race has become an increasingly obsolete way of constructing community because it is based on unchangeable, immutable biological facts in a pseudo-scientific way.

Blacks stand out uniquely among the array of American racial and ethnic groups in the degree to which marriage remains within the group.

Race has no place in American life or law.

I was angry with the Church because they were not aggressively pointing out the immorality of racism.

The Negro Marines are no longer on trial. They are Marines, period

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.