Quotes About Prejudice

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

I don't think Italy is a racist country, because there are so many immigrants.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

If people want to see me as the bad boy because one of my friends has gone to jail, then that's what they're going to think, but they haven't a clue about my life and what I've had to deal with growing up and the things I've been around.

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

I live in Kingston. When I tell people I live in Kingston, they start fearing for my life. People ask me if I have Internet in Jamaica. Like, seriously?

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

I am definitely not sitting down with Jason Whitlock because I don't think he is willing to learn. He is fat and 50. There ain't no changing the mind of a fat, 50-year-old person.

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.

Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.