Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

A race-transcendent politics is most likely to succeed when the white community takes responsibility for overcoming its racism, not when the black community decides to forget it.

Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

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

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

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

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

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.

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

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

Attempting to heal the wounds of the past by racial discrimination today undermines a future of racial reconciliation.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe race consciousness among whites …

The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.