Tyron Woodley Quotes

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

If a white man says, "give me liberty or give me death" in any country, white men all over the world stand up and applaud. But if a black man says the same thing--the exact same words--he is created like a dangerous criminal.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Denying racism is the new racism.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.