Lynn Swann Quotes

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

This is a racist country.

You face racism in small and large ways.

There are people out there like Fox News who, every time a Black person complains in public of how we are treated in our society, is accused of “playing the race card.”

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers that his white girlfriend's family is running a nasty racist conspiracy.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

It's just a fact. You've got to deal with racism wherever you go.

Of course I've felt racism.

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.

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.

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

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

I'm very light, so some people don't really know that I'm black. I've been in situations where people will say something kind of racist, and I'll step in, and they'll be like, 'Oh, well, you're light.' That still doesn't cut it, buddy.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.