Grégory Baugé Quotes

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

Hollywood's racist.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

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.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

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.

Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it's difficult because the beauty business says, 'If you don't look a certain way, God made a mistake.'

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

I'm very light, so some people don't really know that I'm black. I've been in situations where people will say something kind of racist, and I'll step in, and they'll be like, 'Oh, well, you're light.' That still doesn't cut it, buddy.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

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.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.