Quotes About Prejudice

It seems like studios and networks only greenlight stuff that has familiarity to them. If you can be like, 'Oh, it's 'Workaholics,' but it's Asian girls,' they're like, 'Yeah, we've got it. We know exactly what the show is. It's greenlit.'

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.