Tituss Burgess Quotes

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

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

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

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it. America has become more politically correct.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

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

I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.

Race is a factor in everything.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.