Quotes About Prejudice

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

To say, 'Well, he's following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes'... I think that's ridiculous.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

When people don't want to debate you on the smart issues of the day, it's just a lot easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox.

I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, 'Oh, they're not all evil and stupid.'

It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.

I think that we need to make sure that we have frank conversations about race and color and discrimination within this country.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

There's always something fishy about the French.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.