"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."

Racism, School, Youth

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"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."

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"No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies."

Hippies, Open, Parents

"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be."

Father, Dad, Time, Selling, Drugs

"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role."

Actor,

"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."

Personality, Tomorrow

"I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot."

Film, Golf, Pretty

"And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense."

Day, Months

"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."

Actor,

"Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing."

Want,

"I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman."

Love, Thought, People, Actors

"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad."

Father, Dad, Living, Want

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"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Racism, Washington

"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"

Judith Jamison, American Dancer

Racism, Talking

"A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?"

bell hooks, American Critic

Racism, Equality, Ignorance, Oppression

"Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else."

Julian Bond, American Activist

Racism,

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

Linda Chavez, American Author

Racism, Cruelty, Rights, Humanrights, Prejudice

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Racism,

"It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Racism, Power, Violence, Injustice

"You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to you what it feels like to be black when I don't understand it and don't want to and spend all my time trying to forget it? I don't want to hate anybody - but now maybe, I can't love anybody either - are we friends? Can we really be friends?"

James Baldwin, American Novelist

Racism, Experience, Struggle, Identity

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

Ann Coulter, American Journalist

Racism,

"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Racism, Race, Perception, Judgment