Backlash Quote by Nina Jacobson

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that…

— Nina Jacobson

“These racialized narratives tend to confirm and reinforce the prevailing public consensus that we need not care about “those people”; they deserve what they…

— Michelle Alexander

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor…

— David Henry Hwang

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in…

— James Earl Jones

This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass…

— Justin Simien

Kids raised on a culture of ‘We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.’ Or just…

— Chris Rock

“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has pointed to…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

— John Lee Hancock

“Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial euphemisms that…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel…

— Scarlett Johansson

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel,…

— Margaret Atwood