Christian Coleman Quotes

It doesn't even feel like racism is real. It just feels like the weirdest ploy, like we're just being had on so many levels. It's even kind of funny when you think about it. A reason not to like someone is 'because you're black.' C'mon, man. How dumb is that?

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

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

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

You face racism in small and large ways.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Negroes are almost too ignorant to eat, scarcely wise enough to breathe, mere existing human machines.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.

The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.