Quotes About Prejudice

Race is a factor in everything.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren't entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.

I would never fall in love with a ditch-digger.

It's normal to criticise people you are not familiar with.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

I was teased at school for having a posh voice even though there was nothing posh about us.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

I was teased about Indian food and the colour of my skin and why my knees and elbows were dark.

Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic, so that was looked down upon by people in my church, and I was teased for that growing up in school, so it goes both ways.

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Seriously, Jamie Cullum could be the smallest person on the planet. He might be lovely and charming and you might think we all should spend more time talking about his piano-playing techniques but, seriously, have you seen how short he is?

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.

I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.

I grew up in a Britain where 'Paki-bashing' was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had 'Pakis Go Home,' and even 'Jewel In The Crown' attracted this sort of comment.