Quotes About Prejudice

Vesey said there would be the men coming home, towns going up. That's the place for a free nigger, is freighting. That's what the free niggers did in the South, done it for years. White men don't care if you freight or barber. Now I don't want to be a barber. I'd cut somebody's ear off by mistake and they'd lynch me. "Don't make jokes like that," said Britt.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

Major offenses like this one, as well as minor indignities, or what psychologist Chester Pierce (1995) referred to as micro-aggressions, are so common and pervasive that for many parents, preparing their Black sons for the likelihood of an

Como suele pasar, Verónica despreciaba a la gente que se le parecía.

Joséphine as saying: "He sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything." This was good news for black Americans who still faced racial prejudice in the United States. Probably the most surprised person was Willie Baker, who read the story in the Chicago

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

What are you reading, Nanny?' 'Pride and Prejudice. Such a stupid book. I've read it twice. Can't see why anyone bothers with it.

She could have some crazy ass husband or boyfriend. You know, a stupid redneck with a gun. -That's redundant.

You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.

People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay.

We lock up the mentally ill because they terrify us. We are afraid of them and even more frightened of what they symbolize. We want to believe they did something that

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.

OW: Sam Fuller. Peter gets furious with me for not expressing enthusiasm for Fuller. Fritz Lang, you know? He thinks is great. Lang, whose mother was Jewish, told me that Goebbels, who was trying to get him to head up the Nazi movie industry, offered to make him an honorary Aryan, of which there were only a handful. Lang said, "But I'm Jewish," and Goebbels replied, "I decide who is Jewish!

however she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring

serial killings were something else—something that happened only in America, like unemployment and homelessness and corruption—the kind of things that they showed you on the television news or that you read about in the international pages of Pravda.

The culture was ready to be dominated by a man with his mix of braggadocio, bullheadedness, celebrity, cruelty, prejudice, know-nothingness, and, yes, narcissism and sociopathy and paranoia. My husband glommed onto a ready host, to our society with all its flaws and weaknesses, and the glomming made him great.