James Knowles III Quotes

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

There's not a racial divide in the city of Ferguson.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition.

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

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

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.