Quotes About Prejudice

Not all celebrities are dunces.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.

People always say, 'Oh, there haven't been many black champions,' but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

I don't look like a chorus girl.

The key emotion, when you grow up gay, lesbian, bi, trans, is shame. We chose what places we went to, chose the people we talked to, based on the idea of keeping ourselves safe.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

I don't respect anyone who has a background on the independent circuit.

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to write a script and they write about a gangster. You know... write about a superhero.

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves - be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads - the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

I have never used a fairness cream in my life. I don't think being fair is in any way superior to any other colour. And when I started working, I found that being fair has actually backfired for me. I have lost a few films because I'm too fair.

Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.