Quotes About Prejudice

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

I was so pretty, actresses didn't want to work with me.

I was always treated older than I am when I was a kid, so I had to be like, 'No, I'm sweet,' and this has continued into adulthood because of the way society portrays Black women.

I really wanted people to see that just because I'm successful doesn't mean I'm not going to be affected by racism.

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

Many people said that I shouldn't have worked alongside Noman Habib as it made me look much older.

American men are like women.

I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.

I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

The anti-Semitism was not easy, and it still isn't. You never really get used to it. You're aware it's out there but you're never fully prepared for it.

We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know what appeals to your people better than you do.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.