Sofia Richie Quotes

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

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!

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

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.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

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.

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.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their eyes. At one time, it was a sharp comic barb that got levelled at some people.

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.

As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I can't be bad because I'm light skin. It's crazy.

It is still difficult being a black cyclist. There are people who say bad things to you that they won't to a white person. It is stupid that that is the case, but your skin colour is there, and some people judge you on that.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.