Joyner Lucas Quotes

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

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 hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

Of course I've felt racism.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

I grew up in a predominantly white community - Hinsdale, Illinois - and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you're a delinquent, and she doesn't know you have the highest score in the class.

I think people are just going to be people, and racism is a thing. If people have an inclination to be racist then they are going to be, and there is not a whole lot that you can do about it.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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