Quotes About Prejudice

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

I don't think gays that should be married.

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

Those fans who abuse people of a different colour or gays just do not think at all.

I don't think bullying is gender or age-related or dependent on what section of society you are coming from.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

I've never played on my gender.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.