Marion Barry Quotes

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Spain is not a racist country.

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Racism springs from ignorance.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.