Quotes About Prejudice

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn't know of LGBT people - much less LGBT black women - living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn't believe I could ever marry or have a child.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers.

There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

If you talk to a woman, she will give you at least five incidents in a day, 5-10 in a month, where she had to work harder to prove herself because she is a 'woman,' maybe at a male-dominated work place or when she has to come across as a smarter woman if she is good-looking.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, 'Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,' or 'Do you smell curry coming?'

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.