Nicole Byer Quotes

Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.

In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

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

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

Your not black enough. If you are black, all you have to do is wear a dashiki and pump your fist, and you’ll get all the money you want.

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

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.

The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin.

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.

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

The only time my Dad ever said I might have not gotten something because of how I look was when I auditioned for Tyler Perry's 'Meet the Browns.' My dad didn't think I was 'black enough' for the show. My dad isn't the most politically correct person.

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.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

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.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

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.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

You face racism in small and large ways.