Sabaa Tahir Quotes

As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

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

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

You face racism in small and large ways.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Racism is a physical experience.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

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.

I agree that lighter-skinned women get favored in Hollywood, and I'm not proud to say that.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

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

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.