Tim Wise Quotes

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

Hollywood's racist.

There are so many shows that are 'white,' and we wanted to talk about how two really delusional, cliche white girls handle racial issues.

I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.

Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.

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

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

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

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

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

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.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

Who came to this country first—the white man, didn’t he? That’s who made this country great.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

The doublespeak of the American neoconservatives who conjured up the term "reverse racism" (was) to attack those who fought against White supremacy. This so-called ‘colorblind’ ideology has reversed the gains made during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and is actually commonsense among White Americans. It informs policymakers from the White House to the Supreme Court and has been used to justify the retreat from egalitarianism.

Barack Obama is an educated fool. He is viewed as the white man in blackface in the community.

He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

Today, the white West--like Germany after the Nazi defeat--lives in a kind of secular penitence in which the slightest echo of past sins brings down withering condemnation. There is now a cloud over white skin where there once was unquestioned authority