Zitat des Tages von Jesse Williams:
The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It's not true, and it's destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don't believe that we deserve it.
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.
We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.
Words are only as good as the response to those words.
You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.