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I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

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

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

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

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