Quotes About Prejudice

I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself.

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

White players always said to me: 'You can call me 'a white so and so,' I don't mind.' But that's because society has indoctrinated us over the past 400 years to think that that's like saying 'you handsome so and so.'

If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

One thing that drives me crazy is when people tell me that I sound good for an athlete. They be like, 'You don't sound like you from Harlem.'

If I look smart and feel confident, other people's bigoted assumptions have less power to harm me.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.

I've been called worse than a Harvard kid.

So most girls I date - actually, all of them - say this. Every girl I end up dating, there's like a couple things. One, they hate me at first.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

I hate that when they call me a transvestite.

I hate a man who looks dirty.

I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

Barack Obama hates white people - especially white men.

I used to think that people just hate vegans; I have since discovered that everybody hates anyone who abstains from anything.

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.