Quotes About Prejudice

There are certain things black people just don't do, OK? Skiing is one of them.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.

I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.

Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it's difficult because the beauty business says, 'If you don't look a certain way, God made a mistake.'

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.

Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

If you don't look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you're not going to say I'm a white kid that can just shoot.

It's hard to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that there is something wrong with you - when you are called dirty because of your skin color.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

I think the fans are human, and they have their own mind. If someone doesn't like a person because of their skin color, it doesn't matter if you fight or you deliver mail; they're going to have that opinion.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.