Kelela Quotes

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you talking about? You're part of the problem then if you're... speaking and labeling all white people, saying they don't understand the issue or saying they can't relate. That's really not giving people much credit, is it?

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

Multiculturalism is a white people joke.

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Go back to Simi Valley, you skunks! Go back to Woodland Hills! Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people, it is your duty to die.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

Well, I had to do it becasue somebody had to do something becasue, you know, black people are killing white people every day on teh streets, and they rape white women, 100 white women a day.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

I had no expectations of white people at all.

A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.

Hollywood's racist.

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?