America Quote by Paul Mooney Download Open image “I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.” — Paul Mooney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Got Here Nothing Racism Racism in america
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
When I experienced racism here in my own country, I was not prepared for it. I had never heard the word racism. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities. — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms. — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image