Wesley Morris Quotes

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

You face racism in small and large ways.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

Racism in America has not been completely eradicated. It is a sturdy pestilence. Racism and intolerance raise their heads repeatedly, not only in America but in every land.

Thought the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resisted at every step of his progress.

You complain that Negroes are a base class. Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

We are tired of being lynched physically in Mississippi, and we are tired of being lynched spiritually and economically in the North.

The black herring of intermarriage has been dragged too often across the trail to justice. 'Would you want your sister to marry a nigger?' is still the question that is supposed to stun any white man who sponsors rights for Negroes. It stirs Negroes to ironic laughter, although on all levels they recognize the white man's fear of intermarriage as deep seated…

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.

Can we first take care of our 'brown lives matter' in India and then worry about the U.S.? I find it bizarre that racism that is done so far away from home it is creating such an uproar. Look at the kind of racism people who are dark skinned in our country have to face.

Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

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

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

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.