Going Quote by Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

— Lilly Singh

Racism doesn't affect me. I've realised now that racism is down to the person doing it. It doesn't affect my life.

— Michail Antonio

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

— Condoleezza Rice

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but…

— Charles Barkley

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's…

— Clarence Thomas

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And…

— Viola Davis

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

— Tim Scott

“Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make…

— Jodi Picoult

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

— Alvin Ailey

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

— Constance Baker Motley

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older,…

— Robert Guillaume