Quotes About Prejudice

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.

In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.

I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.

There's something problematic with this idea that straight men can be 'turned', and the binary of gay and straight and the lack of knowledge of the Kinsey scale.

We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that's problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that's also problematic.

The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

It's a hindrance in trying to get a serious acting role. The minute a producer has a script and my name comes up, they immediately think of 'Playboy,' 'Hee Haw,' 'Fantasy Island' and 'Love Boat.'

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

People assume that trans people will only be accepted as trans characters, or that there aren't enough trans writers, or that there aren't any trans producers or directors, there's that attitude.