Quotes About Prejudice

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I don't have anything against long hair. I've known some crew-cut bums.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.

We are also trying to fight successfully in the European Union against anti-Semitism. Because of Austria's history, it is, from my point of view, our obligation to do that.

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country music.' But it's pretty narrow minded to say 'All country music sucks.' Of course, that being said, all short-form improv sucks.

Because I think it's so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language that they speak, to just look at the colour of their skin and all of a sudden reduce them to harmful stereotypes.

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'