Quotes About Prejudice

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

If I put up a hot photo, people think I am only interested in doing raunchy roles or special songs.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.