Quotes About Prejudice

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.

The worst fear you can have coming from a modelling background is that you're going to be a model-turned- actress - a mattress, that's what I call them, ironically, I hope.

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages... feel free to carry on if it makes your day better.

I was 13 and one of the boys on the other team called me a monkey. When I was younger, that sort of thing got me angry. I was the one who got a red card that day.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

Labour doesn't have a monopoly on non-white people.

If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.

After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to ignore how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.

What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

A lot of people that bully or whatever it may be, people that don't know you, classmates or a lot of stuff is from people who don't know who you are and what your values and morals are.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?