George Pelecanos Quotes

The most profound moments in politics usually happen unexpectedly.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

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

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

2016 is a change election, and that favors Trump.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?

A lot of problems that are going on aren't going to get better if we don't talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It's a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I had moved to Mumbai in 2006 and lived there for around six years while West Bengal was going through a political upheaval. After I returned to Kolkata in February 2012, and started to work here, I realized how things had changed here.

The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, which is to take every opportunity to depict the Republican Party a group of rich white racists.

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.

I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it's followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over.