Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I have a huge issue with blackface.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

No one actually cares about blackface.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but can anyone explain why the 'character' isn't roundly condemned for being as unacceptably racist as the one-dimensional stereotypes from 70s sitcoms such as 'Mind Your Language?'

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate I was about to dive into. I didn't realize how popular and passionate many white Dutch are about a figure that they connect to fond memories from their childhood.

Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.