Quotes About Prejudice

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

You know, the nigger was wild till the white man made what he has out of the nigger. He done educate them real smart.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

She's married, too. Arch, I'll bet she's one of these rich bitches can't live with their husbands.

Gerçek mühendislerin k?z çocu?u olurmu?.

She means it doesn't come off, Dana... The black. She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.

Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists—probably Ina racists—don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to your daytime problems is melanin.

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.

There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.

It's wrong to assume that I must be a sex you're familiar with," it said, "but as it happens, I'm male.

I mean, that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something." Indeed, he would. "Yes," I said. "He does seem to enjoy calling people things like that. Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems.

We dull your natural fear of strangers and of difference. We keep you from injuring or killing us or yourselves.

Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems.

On the street, people are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind, but with all of us armed and watchful, people stared, but they let us alone. Our neighborhood is too small for us to play those kinds of games.

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?

I didn't like them when I heard them. I liked them even less when I met them. They look at us as though we smell and they don't. Of course, it doesn't matter whether I like them or not. There are other people in the neighborhood whom I don't like. But I don't trust the Payne-Parrishes. The kids seem all right, but the adults. … I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

It's a good thing your people don't eat meat. If you did, the way you talk about us, our flavors and your hunger and your need to taste us, I think you would eat us instead of fiddling with our genes." And after a moment of silence, "That might even be better. It would be something we could understand and fight against.

We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what's happened to us can happen to them. They don't like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town.

Most people had suspected it had begun in Los Angeles where, according to them, most stupid or wicked things began. Local prejudice. I didn't tell any of them I was from the L.A. area.

Turn a few pages and you'll find a white man named J. D. B. DeBow claiming that slavery is good because, among other things, it gives poor whites someone to look down on. That's history. It happened whether it offends you or not.

He had a man's voice already. He had everything but a man's brain.

they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help.

After all, they knew Dad didn't kill Keith. And they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help. They came later, and more often than not, made a bad situation worse.