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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.