Quotes About Prejudice

My whole life, I've been called 'Just a pretty face,' or, 'You'll never amount to anything, you don't really have anything to offer, but your looks.' It's never defined who I am, I mean, I've heard it my whole life, it's nothing new.

It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

If you think because I'm a pretty girl I can't mow a lawn, I'm offended.

For a homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he's good at what he does. You know, he's got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take 'em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends - not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

I have dated an actor or two. I've tried not to, but then, I don't want to be racist against actors.

I've dated mostly guys who have corporate jobs and there's always the issue of them thinking my job is easy.

Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

I could be completely mad and sound like David Icke, but I just find people with blue eyes colder, less passionate, and more calculated people.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

Equal rights should not be debatable and certainly should not be put to a vote of the people. Would we ask the electorate to vote on whether or not Catholics and Protestants should marry? Of course we would not.

We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.

Sad how the character of a person is defined by their apparel.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.