Justin Simien Quotes

A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

People are equal, cultures are not.

I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.

I was one of three kids of colour in our school. There was a young black brother and sister, and me. So we stood out.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.

I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.

I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.

Although I had a private education at secondary level, I went to a local primary school where I mixed with kids of all backgrounds.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my Italian - everything that makes me, me.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the lack of diversity in their curating departments, but is it any wonder?

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.