Sterling K. Brown Quotes

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Colored people are quite ignorant, mostly uneducated and I doubt that they would seek an education if they had an opportunity.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.

Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

I don't believe in college admission or any other venue that we should pick one race or sex over another in college admissions. My philosophy and reaction is that I would not support a program that by race or status alone elevates someone over another in a competition of sorts.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

People don't talk about small-town racism in Illinois or upstate New York. They're like, 'It's the South.' And it is. It's there. But it's everywhere. But everywhere, there are also amazing people.