Chris Rock Quotes

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

The Southern Negro is not an incurably ignorant ape. The Southern white masses are not biologically degenerate.

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.

In the 1960’s I was opposed to a system of preferences known as white supremacy. I am still against preferences.

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

The language is, "We the people"; not we the white people, not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people; not we the horses, sheep, and swine, and wheelbarrows, but we the people, we the inhabitants [of America; and if Negroes are people, they are included in the benefits for which the Constitution of America was ordained and established.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.