Quotes About Prejudice

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

People in the industry thought it was laughable that I should be going up for things that didn't clearly state what race the part was intended for.

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

When people see me on TV, they become very happy because they don't have to interact with me. When they start interacting with me, they ask me questions like I'm a baby or treat me like I'm a baby and hold me like I'm a baby, and that's what they do wrong, really.

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

Who could believe such a thing? That it was better to live a life of constant loneliness and emptiness rather than try to fill the void with someone of an "unacceptable" class or clan? That it was better to be alone than try to find someone to love outside the narrow strata of society my parents approved of?

Also they have this nervous feeling that anyone with tits like that must be vulgar. Or insensitive. There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p's and q's and keeping up with current oddities—no slouch more or less—and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp.

Most taxi drivers won't bring folks to our street They say they could get shot or killed So I wonder what that makes me A person who is bulletproof or already dead

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

Time changed our prejudices, but it didn't change the fact that we were prejudiced.

Martha had never trusted skinny cooks.

Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

Kikes!" Macko spit. "I wouldn't fuck those pieces of shit if they was the last bitches on earth." Decker's eyes blurred for a split second. When they refocused, he realized his hand was on the butt of his .38.

Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He'd grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers.