Quotes About Prejudice

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

I don't have anything against homosexuals, but 'Cigano' needs to get out of the closet.

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

I love colors, but I also love rich sounds. And I feel like when it comes to colored ukuleles, people assume they're cheap or that they'll have a tinny sound. And I feel like it would be really beautiful to have a rich color but also to have a rich sound.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.