Quotes About Prejudice

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.

I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

You'll always have someone attacking you in some way. But it's weird from someone who's never met you.

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

Donald Trump is a bigot.

I think Donald Trump might be racist.

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

I'm the only black man you ever met who couldn't dribble a basketball.

When you're a six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound dude, you're not the romantic lead.

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.