Amir Khan Quotes

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

As a black, you find you have to be two or three times better than a white even to play. And when it comes to front-office jobs, management believes you'll never be as good.

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I’ve always operated on the theory that I’d better be better and cleaner than my white counterparts.

… the most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

When 10 Blacks die in this country, Whites don't care. It is as if flies had died.

Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?

While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.

How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don't get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.