I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me. Jesse Williams Read Quote
There’s so much material out there that’s unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is ‘urban’ or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that’s not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn’t move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm. Jesse Williams Read Quote
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. Jesse Williams Read Quote
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same. Jesse Williams Read Quote
I don’t check for Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don’t wake me up in the morning. I don’t care about them, and they certainly don’t drive the conversations I’m thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people. Jesse Williams Read Quote
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return. Jesse Williams Read Quote
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. Jesse Williams Read Quote
I download, like, forty songs a day, I’m a big music collector and a big record collector. Jesse Williams Read Quote
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. Jesse Williams Read Quote