Chris Lilley Quotes

I have a huge issue with blackface.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Racism springs from ignorance.

If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed

Those damn Presbyterian Indians!

The English are an embarrassing and an ugly race—a lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd.

I don’t watch TV because every time I do all I ever see is that fucking nigger.

There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively.

I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'

I certainly don't know a lot of anti-Semitic people, but I've got plenty of friends that have a whole bunch of Jew jokes up their sleeve, and every time it's relevant, it will come up.

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

No one actually cares about blackface.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!