Sarah Jones Quotes

I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

It is very easy for whites to miss problems that aren’t our own; that’s a function not of being white but of being human.

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know about the journey of a person of color? You know nothing. This is all theory to you. Because you did lie. You took advantage of affirmative action.'

People don't believe this, but until sixth grade I'd never seen a white person who wasn't with the police or on TV.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.