Thomas Chatterton Williams

Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest,…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I had the benefit, I'll say it, of coming up behind my brother and seeing what he went through and just simply…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as 'Do the Right Thing' was released the…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If the first year of the Trump administration has made anything clear, it's that experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom matter tremendously.…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Traveling through France in regular times, for better or worse, I am simply perceived as an American.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If white people on a larger scale really de-emphasized their whiteness, I think that would have to transform the Republican party into…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Years ago, I worked briefly as a consultant for Sciences-Po, one of Paris's famed grandes ecoles, encouraging American high school students and…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I grew up in New Jersey, but my parents are from out west. They moved the family to New Jersey when my…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams