Candice Patton Quotes

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

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.

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

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

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.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

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.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

Race is everything.

There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

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.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

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.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

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.

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.