Munira Mirza Quotes

At the start of the 21st century, Britain is caught in a confusing riptide of anxiety. Of course racism still exists, but things have improved to a point where many ethnic minority Britons do not experience it as a regular feature in their lives.

Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

If you do away with segregation, allow negro [sic] children in white schools, churches, etc. you might as well drop a few bombs on us and not prolong the agony.

I have no idea how one stops one group, one race, from hating another. The hatred between human groups has never been cured, except by time.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.