Quotes About Prejudice

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

Women are crazy." Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.

Women are fucking crazy. No qualifier: Not some women, not many women. Women are crazy.

I had my share of fun,' I said. 'Looks and money get you a long way in Wind Gap.' 'And brains?' 'Brains you hide.

now her stomach knotted as she remembered the Free-Lunch kids and her patronizing smiles toward them as they presented their dog-eared cards, and the steamy cafeteria ladies would call it out: Free Lunch! And the boy next to her, buzz-haired and confident, would whisper inanely: There's no such thing as a free lunch. And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You'd think all women do is clean and bleed. And

I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.

Muy propio de Nick», y lo que quiera que fuese a continuación, lo que quiera que fuese «muy propio de mí», siempre era negativo.)

His nametag said Jose. I tried to see if he was missing any fingers. Mexicans don't get cushy box jobs unless they're owed. That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

This place is so white, it's disturbing," said Amy, who, back in the melting pot of Manhattan, counted a single African-American among her friends. I accused her of craving ethnic window dressing, minorities as backdrops. It did not go well.)

Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits.

You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

I like strong women' is code for 'I hate strong women.

There is such a thing as a pretty trailer park, you know. Diane

you get a bunch of angry men together,and things aren't too good for a woman that comes across them

Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.

bratty, bratty New York girl who has never ventured to those big unwieldy middle states, those States Where Many Other People Live)

After she found out Aurelie was a Negro, Mama became obsessed with the color of my skin, as if Aurelie's hidden blackness had been contagious and I might have caught a touch of it. Whenever she saw me, she stared at me with furrowed brow and complained that I was losing my bloom. To protect me from the sun, she gave me a parasol to carry when I went out with her, and a straw hat to wear in the convent garden. Still, she worried.

What is the difference to you between hate, and a contempt which results in considering people as 'cargo'?