Quotes About Prejudice

As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or that you may be 'too emotional' for office. As an African-American woman, the bar can be even higher.

I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

We have to end cash bail.

We have to eradicate caste.

A criminal has no caste and is only a criminal.

It has become impossible for India to talk about caste with any candour.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They're afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Rap's the only music that they categorize like that. That's one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it's from. R&B, you don't call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that's already like a shot at our culture.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

Rarely when you label a group as something does that whole group really fall into that category.

The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.

The things that repulse people never ceases to amaze me.