Winnie Harlow Quotes

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

I honestly thought that since I didn't associate myself with any people or groups who were outwardly racist, and I didn't act in a way that struck me as racist, that this meant that I myself was not a racist, and that racism wasn't a huge issue.

I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

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 cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

It is still difficult being a black cyclist. There are people who say bad things to you that they won't to a white person. It is stupid that that is the case, but your skin colour is there, and some people judge you on that.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.