Quotes About Prejudice

I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country.

In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

Don't label me before we get a chance to talk about it. Talk to me first and see what kind of person I am. That's what I like to tell the media: Come talk to me, let's sit down and talk about what's really going on.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,' those labeled criminals. I see now that 'they' are me, and I am them.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

They always like to put labels on me.

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

Oh, I don't like labels.