Always Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

— Jordan Peele

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own…

— Michelle Alexander

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

Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly, when it…

— Ron Stallworth

I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad history in…

— O. J. Mayo

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

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

— Oswald Spengler

We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's sad, honestly,…

— Andrew Hawkins

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation,…

— Eric Holder

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

— 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

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

— Barack Obama