Jordan Peele Quotes

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.