Quotes About Bias

Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

What happens in many of these cases is that, in the absence of evidence, the crime is pinned on a person of low social standing who is known to be in the vicinity of the crime. We have seen this repeatedly.

In this country you're guilty until proven wealthy.

Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)

Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.

Despite being more connected than ever before, we're not particularly generous toward, or understanding of, one another, preferring to hide behind denial and personal bias.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

It was Comey who wrecked the FBI and allowed this witches brew of biased managers to simmer and boil over when things didn't go as he planned.

There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.