Ron Stallworth Quotes

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

What after all am I. Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both? Or is it my duty to cease to be a Negro as soon as possible and be an American? If I strive as a Negro, am I not perpetuating the very cleft that threatens and separates black and white in America.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races.

It’s a sordid business this divvying us up by race.

When I came here, there were two groups of United Church Women, one black and one white.

Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me.

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

I went to high school in Frisco, Texas, where a lot of people look the same, dress the same, act the same. People are either like, 'You're not black enough for this' or 'You're not white enough for this.'

The core of Animal House was about prejudice, about equality, and about inclusion/exclusion. It was about a group of people who were together and anything went. Anybody who wanted in could get it in. Then there was that other group that nobody could get in, unless they were white, and just alike. It was very representative of the culture in the '60s, '50s, and '40s in America.

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.