Quotes About Prejudice

One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they're not laughing at the joke, they're laughing at this crazy character.

I don't like any female comedians.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

People make very many comments in life when they don't have the background or the knowledge.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

It's never been written about, but before the blacklist of Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten, there was a de facto blacklist by Communists in the movie industry, and there were a lot of them.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Coming from a comprehensive school in Somerset, entertainment didn't seem like something that was open to you.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

A lot of times, I got confused for a kicker. And I've been compared to every white player in the NFL.

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

There are many people still ashamed of their roots because of the negative connotations that come with being an 'African.' That sentiment exists many places around the world - in England, in the U.S., everywhere.

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.