American society Quote by Randall Robinson

I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.

— Kelela

I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get…

— Bernie Sanders

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice,…

— Booker T. Washington

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

— Jayson Blair

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the…

— Tess Gerritsen

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way -…

— Patti Harrison

I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That…

— Max Boot

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting…

— Charles Melton

It made me sad to notice there's more American culture in society. It's about having their eyebrows groomed, pedicures, being more conscious about being…

— Renee Zellweger

What I know now is that I used to not just tolerate but submit to and even on some deep level need our society's…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams