Quotes About Prejudice

The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.

I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you're dyslexic or Republican or whatever.

Some people think that I must be ancient because I've been in the business for so long, others still think of me as a waif and assume that I'm too young for certain roles. Starting out at such an early age seems to have worked against me.

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI, was a racist and he said we don't want any black people.

People assume that if you are an actress, you must not be very educated.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

Language does not make one an elite.

Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

For many Leavers, having been demonised in the vilest terms as racists, stupid and worse, it is hard to simply employ a hug-a-Remainer approach.

I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

You never see girls running after engineers.

When I entered the industry, I was told that I was fit for only television and not films.

I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

Being young and black and going into a business where you are trying to establish position and where you are able to make business decisions with the lack of what people would call an education, not having a degree, no one wanted to give us a chance.