August Alsina Quotes

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

We are told, if you work hard, you'll succeed—but if that were true, Black people would own this country.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

It's more dangerous to be black in America...If you are a normal white American, the truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk in a way that you have to be corrected.

While all of us have been impoverished spiritually by this stigma upon our nation, minority groups of color such as the Blacks, the American Indians, and the Mexican-Americans have borne the brunt of this malady

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

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

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

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.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

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.