Lexi Alexander Quotes

You can't get much whiter than me.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

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

White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I never though much about race.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.