Andrea Navedo Quotes

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

There are people out there like Fox News who, every time a Black person complains in public of how we are treated in our society, is accused of “playing the race card.”

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today.

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

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

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

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

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

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

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

We simply cannot insist that race should not matter when everything in life argues that it does.

The United States was created for white people …. When a negro has learned to read, he ceases to work.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.