Queen Latifah Quotes

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

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

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

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

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

This is a racist country.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

… nothing less than the legalization of racial discrimination

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

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.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.