Jules Feiffer Quotes

I don't sign for white people.

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said.

The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper.

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!