Noma Dumezweni Quotes

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

To realize democracy it is necessary to absolutely eliminate ... colour from all State and social policy, unless you would justify ... caste, wealth, rank, birth and education, as giving title to privileged treatment ...

I am working for the time when unqualified Blacks, Browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

I don’t care if he is black, blue or green. He is the best man for the job.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race

The colored employees of the Government shall be treated precisely as the whites are treated. If they attend to their duty they will not be disturbed.

Government service in all its branches, state and federal, would have to be thrown open to all on the basis solely of merit, and promotions made accordingly. It would probably be necessary to have drastic laws against manifestations of color prejudice and discrimination, just as we have legislated against kidnapping, arson and murder which are certainly no more serious from the viewpoint of national welfare.

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.