Tyron Woodley Quotes

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they - they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.

If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing.

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

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

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

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

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

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

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

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.

A Black man who acted like John Wayne does in his filmes would be considered a raving maniac.

Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.

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

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.