Quotes About Prejudice

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.

It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

I hated 'Avatar' from the jump. And I like James Cameron. I'm not opposed to James Cameron.

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

It's a common misunderstanding, that when a bisexual person is dating someone of the opposite sex that they are now straight, or if they are dating someone of the same sex they are now gay.

Gays are the molecular opposites of blacks.

When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

Anytime someone orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

Those Oriental people work like dogs.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.