Quotes About Prejudice

So much for the famous 'Hoosier hospitality.' When we moved to our new house, no one stopped by with strawberry rhubarb pie or warm wishes. Our neighbors must have taken one look at David and Jerome and locked their doors - and minds - against us

Neither of us uttered a word about what happened. We never do. But I can't smudge it from my mind. The farm boys' sneering red faces. The runt shaking the fence. The brown lump of spit tobacco. The anguish in David's eyes. They don't know the first thing about us; they just hate us because we're black

It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being "pre-op" or "post-op" when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either "circumcised" or "uncircumcised.

When the majority of jokes made at the expense of trans people center on "men wearing dresses" or "men who want their penises cut off" that is not transphobia - it is trans-misogyny. When the majority of violence and sexual assaults omitted against trans people is directed at trans women, that is not transphobia - it is trans-misogyny.

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Whiteness is filthy.

Qué entendés por snob? —preguntó Oliveira, más interesado. —Bueno —dijo la Maga, agachando la cabeza con el aire de quien presiente que va a decir una burrada—, yo me vine en tercera clase, pero creo que si hubiera venido en segunda Luciana hubiera ido a despedirme. —La mejor definición que he oído nunca —dijo Oliveira.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.

The capitan...one of those tall, arrogant, acerbically handsome niggers that most of the planet feels inferior to. Also one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit.

How much English do you know? None, Papi said after a moment. Eulalio shook his head. Papi met Eulalio last and liked him least.

That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.

That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.

Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.

Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.