Quotes About Prejudice

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?

Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

There is a bias; there is a Washington mentality.

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda.

There was a point where people would mention that I was black everyday.

Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Most Russians believe they've never met an LGBT person in their lives. Also they immediately see LGBT people as 'other,' lending to the success of singling the group out as a 'problem.'

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Just because my name is Carlos Mencia, don't think my show is going to be about the difference between Mexicans and white people.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

When I first started to sing, people automatically asked what Barbi Benton was doing behind a microphone, and I'm determined to show them there is talent here.

I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.

I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I was hairy with dark hair and dark skin.

Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.