Stan Van Gundy Quotes

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

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

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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

The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, which is to take every opportunity to depict the Republican Party a group of rich white racists.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

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

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...

If you’re talking about American history, you’re talking about race.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

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.