Quotes About Prejudice

I hate the fact that people can judge based on something that isn't fully given to them. Like, this isn't the full product.

There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

Let's put the cards on the table. Real is real. If I was a different complexion, I think people and fans would treat me a different way.

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

A lot of people - boys - look at me differently. They think that if they date me, they are gay because they are dating another boy. In instances like this, I feel almost excluded, if that's the right word. I feel like I'm being put on a different shelf.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage.

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.