Maysoon Zayid Quotes

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

We insist that educationally and socially we maintain a segregated society …

Segregation is a disease of white people, not of colored people.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.