Quotes About Prejudice

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

There are no French Puritans.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

Keep pushing people into their racial affinity groups, keep telling us to identify with our race and you know what will happen? Some White people will actually take you up on that and guess what? You'll have more real, actual racists.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.

I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.