Aspect Quote by Randy Newman

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

— Luol Deng

I was lucky I had a mom who had seen it all. From seeing my grandfather march in the Civil Rights era, she understood…

— Malcolm Brogdon

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

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

Talking about racism with white people can make white people very uncomfortable, Black people very uncomfortable.

— Wunmi Mosaku

People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that…

— DeRay Mckesson

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

— Harry Lennix

Most of my experience with racism comes from living in the South.

— JPEGMAFIA

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

— J. Nozipo Maraire

Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed…

— Jemele Hill

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Talking about what any one section of our society has to do to combat racism just stops people outside that group asking difficult questions…

— John Barnes