Adjust Quote by Sidney Poitier

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

— Sidney Poitier

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the…

— Sidney Poitier

Florida is like a different country. It's crazy - the nature, the people.

— Taylor Russell

Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced…

— John David Washington

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

— JPEGMAFIA

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd,…

— Matt Passmore

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face…

— Kevin DeYoung

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult…

— Jeb Bush

Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition.

— W. Kamau Bell

The level of racism that I received in school was insane.

— Jay Blades

I think everybody that grows up in Florida, you've got a little chip on your shoulder. It's not as bad as people think it…

— Benjamin Booker

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius