Desire Quote by Jordan Peele

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out…

— Donna Brazile

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day,…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is…

— Tillie Olsen

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges…

— Gayle Pemberton

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded…

— Lani Guinier

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go…

— Eric Holder

I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they…

— Tao Lin

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

— Jordan Peele

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the…

— Claudia Rankine

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not…

— Eric Holder

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going to get…

— Stan Van Gundy