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Quotes About Prejudice

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....
~ Arundhati Roy
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
~ Marilyn Hacker
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
~ Lewis Schiff
Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.
~ George Clooney
Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back
~ Sonya Sones
We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.
~ Kevin Sessums
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
~ Albert Einstein
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.
~ Jonathan Page Acabo
Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.
~ Nat Wolff
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
~ Benny Goodman
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
~ Nina Simone
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
~ Loretta Lynn
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
~ Grimes
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
~ Miles Davis
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
~ Nina Simone
Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don't like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.
~ Jack White
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
~ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
~ Charley Pride
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
~ Kim Deal
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
~ Ray Charles