Quotes About Prejudice

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.

I feel like New Yorkers get stereotyped as , but I feel like they are the most friendly. I feel like you get to know people in a day, where in L.A., I am isolated in my car because I never get to talk to people as much.

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.