Jordan Peele Quotes

We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

Race is still real and you got to recognize it.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I never though much about race.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.