Reggie Jackson Quotes

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

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

I doubted that the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored, typical coon who blacks my shoes every morning was fit for citizenship.

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences.

My wife and I might be seated beside a Nigra.

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

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.

It's just a fact. You've got to deal with racism wherever you go.

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their eyes. At one time, it was a sharp comic barb that got levelled at some people.

I think as a black woman, we have a lot of colorism going on around us, and we have a lot of racism as well.

I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

I've had a black guy call me a honky, and I've also been told that white people smell like bologna.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'