Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

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.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Attempting to heal the wounds of the past by racial discrimination today undermines a future of racial reconciliation.

When was the last time each of us discussed the issue of race with a member of another race?

The Problem We All Live With

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

We don't like talking about race in the U.K. - it's a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for the covers, but I believe we have to talk about it.

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

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

Man, all lives matter.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

It trips me out when I hear people say, 'Well, I don't see color.' You see color. Now, how you respond and how you handle the situation once you've seen and noticed color is different.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

No one actually cares about blackface.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

The second I bring up race in the sport, I'm immediately race-baiting. But I can point out clear facts, where no other champion has been treated like me.