Quotes About Discrimination

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

One of the biggest challenges you face as a female manager is getting a foot in the door to be interviewed fairly.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

The U.S. was founded as a white supremacist nation; that's just what it is.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

When was 'again?' Was it back when I was drinking from a separate water fountain? Was it when I couldn't eat in that restaurant over there?... 'Make America Great Again' - before I had equality?

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.

When people don't want to debate you on the smart issues of the day, it's just a lot easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox.