Quotes About Discrimination

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

In our film industry I've realised actresses are not respected at all.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning... Will there ever come a point where I could play a woman in a realistic, naturalistic drama and have there not be the word 'trans' in the script?

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.