Quotes About Prejudice

For me, it's really important when I go into a reading to not have any bias and so that's a big reason why I never know who I'm meeting or where I'm going.

I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I have a big problem with cis straight men. I'm sort of discriminatory against them and it's going to take work for me to find a way to build a relationship with those people and trust that those people can be allies.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

I am not a bimbo. But the industry doesn't look beyond my body.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

I don't think it's accepted naturally to be bisexual, especially as a woman.

For me, there's a lot of erasure of bisexuality. I think a lot of people - especially in women - they tend to have really bad responses to it.

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

I don't have any blonde friends.