Carl Hart Quotes

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

African-Americans are underrepresented.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

In the progress of nations, Negroes have shown less capacity for government than any other race of people. No independent government of any form has ever been successful in their hands.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

I hate to say this about the Republican establishment, but their view of Civil Rights is to tip the black waiter five bucks at the country club.

The U. S, Social Security Act not only takes the Afro-American for a ride, but aids immediately in perpetuating his inferior status, What we see here, as in most other 'liberal' legislation, in a further stratifying of the Negro at the bottom of the ladder of life. .

I am appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass in this country that I am skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States.

I thought the Navy at times resembled a Southern plantation that had somehow escaped the Civil War. Blacks swabbed the decks, shined shoes, did the cooking, washed the dishes, and served the food. Virtually no other jobs were open to them.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.