Joe Morton Quotes

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.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.

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

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

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.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

It's just a fact. You've got to deal with racism wherever you go.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

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

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

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

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.