Mellody Hobson Quotes

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos or whatever in each school… What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Make black history every day, I don't need a month

There are only two positions, either you support multiculturalism in American education, or you support the maintenance of white supremacy.

When was the last time each of us discussed the issue of race with a member of another race?

You are responsible for the participation of all racial groups in FHA programs.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.