Skip Bayless Quotes

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

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

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

White men are taking advantage of black men all over the world because black men are disunited.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Mrs. Hoover has offered to the South and to the nation an arrogant insult yesterday.

Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man's law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women.

All the households of the poor are not equally submissive

Oppression is the essence of power.

The trend of psychology, education, anthropology, and social science is toward environmentalism in the explanation of group differences, which means that the racial beliefs which defended caste are being torn away. It also means, by implication, that the white majority group in power is accused of being the cause of the Negro's deficiencies and unhappiness.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

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