Roxie Roker Quotes

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

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

If you're brave enough to search 'Franchesca Ramsey' on YouTube, you'll find a sea of ranting white dudes pinning the 'angry black woman' stereotype onto my smiling face.

No one actually cares about blackface.

I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I can't be bad because I'm light skin. It's crazy.

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.

I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

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

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.