Waris said it's crazy that people are so stupid to think over one and a half billion Muslims all think and act the same way, a Muslim man carries out a mass shooting or blows people up and he's called a terrorist, a white man does the same thing and he's called a mad manboth sets are mad, Yazz

Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation whereupon she walked right back out againin turn a casting director told Dominique she was wasting his time when she turned up for a Victorian drama when there weren’t any black people in Britain thenshe said there were, called him ignorant before also leaving the roomand in her case, slamming the door

Very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents

African peoples were referred to as black long after the word made its appearance in the English language, so it makes no sense to retroactively impose racist connotations on to its everyday usage, and if you do, you’re going to drive yourself mad and, I’m sorry to say, everyone else with you