Quotes About Prejudice

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Spain is not a racist country.

Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.

The hated have no reason to love.

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.

Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same "REASON" that the sky are "BLUE?

We Destroy Because We HateWe Hate Because We FearWe Fear Because We Don't UnderstandWe Don't Understand Because We Won't LearnIlluminate your mind & Educate yourself!

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why?

Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.