Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

Race is everything.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

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

I never though much about race.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

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.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

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

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.

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

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.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

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

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.