Mathew Knowles Quotes

Please do not think me terribly narrow, but Sinha is comparatively white, whilst Muckerji is black as my hat!

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.

Light-skinned women, we can break them down more easy.

Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

I am for the negro against the crocodile, but for the white man against the negro.

Society as a whole had sentenced me to a life of humiliation for the sole reason that I was not white.

I agree that lighter-skinned women get favored in Hollywood, and I'm not proud to say that.

Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?

I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

I believe that racism is a problem, and we need to do something about it.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.