Shia LaBeouf Quotes

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

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

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

Everybody is mouthing the platitudes in the law and everywhere else, where it serves a purpose that we're a color-blind society. But we're not. We're as color conscious as we've ever been.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

The Southern institution of racial segregation or racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth which arose from the chaos and confusion of the Reconstruction period. Separation promotes racial harmony. It permits each race to follow its own pursuits, and its own civilization. Segregation is not discrimination

It’s time we faced facts. Southern people just don’t like Black people.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.

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.

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise.

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.