Quotes About Prejudice

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.