A Quote by Tessa Thompson

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Tessa Thompson

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Tessa Thompson
American - Actress
Born: October 3, 1983

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

Henry Louis Gates

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Tracy Morgan

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Henry Louis Gates

Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.

Colson Whitehead

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

Uzodinma Iweala

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

Justin Simien

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

Ezra Koenig

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

Brendan I. Koerner

I honestly just live in Trippie Redd's world. I don't live in America... I ain't finna live anywhere else but America.

Trippie Redd

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

Michael Eric Dyson

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Roxane Gay

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

Robin DiAngelo

Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That's true, but that is only true because the conditions we live under are completely wrong - that should not be true, and it is. And in something like Sarah Polley's film, her fictions deliver so much truth. The retellings and the simulations and the theatrical aspects are what deliver all the truth.