Ethel Waters Quotes

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas where healthy people will be infected by racism.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

I have never been racist.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington.

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

I think it's certainly important that we don't have symbols in our society that are offensive to a segment and that arouse racial division.

For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

I want to create resolution and inclusion, so I created Black Santa because his eyes see no color.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.