Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

I have never been racist.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

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

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

We - America - have to move past the ideology, the tribalism, that grips this country. As ridiculous as this sounds, I believe 'Black Panther,' the film, could help us do that if it addresses issues of tribal polarization and, by extension, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in an entertaining, non-preachy way.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

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.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

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.'

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.