Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I am definitely a person of color.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

The diversity industry needs friction to survive, so it perpetually reworks the definition of racism.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age.

There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.

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

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Race has become an increasingly obsolete way of constructing community because it is based on unchangeable, immutable biological facts in a pseudo-scientific way.

Race is a fact of life and is not a problem unless people make it out to be so

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.