Quotes About Prejudice

I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?

I remember going to stadiums and huge sections of the stand gave you racial abuse. It was never nice but it wasn't a surprise - particularly when I was first at Spurs.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.

Nothing surprises me as far as racism is concerned in this country.

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

She sighed. "All men are the same." "So are all women—after the first nine.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something that they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not anymore. They're topped by too many smart minds.

There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.

I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me

Well, all he did was kill a Negro," I said. "I guess that's only a misdemeanor.

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

You are summoned for no reason other than that you are a Jew, as if Jew were a mass term comparable, say, to water or salt. Here is a bit of water, we say, and any sample of it will do. All water manifests itself the same interchangeable water properties. That a Nazi should think this way about Jews is not in the least surprising. Mass terms, mass murders, mass graves: they are all of a piece.

Men's bodies are weapons and women's bodies are targets and queer bodies are hated for blurring the distinction or rejecting the metaphors.

Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined