Quotes About Discrimination

Binaries, whether it's 'man' or 'woman,' or 'black' and 'white,' were created to separate us. So without binary, there is only 'us,' which makes us all equal.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.

America thinks if you're fat, you're stupid. That's great. I want them to keep thinking that. Let them keep on thinking that because the truth is, the expectations are blown away even more when you realize what I'm saying and doing.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.

Anybody who says that favoritism doesn't exist in Bollywood would be lying.

I was too foreign-looking for Bollywood.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

What Boston basically said was, I didn't 'pass the eye test.' They were looking for somebody bigger, bulkier. They put me where they put guys my size - on the perimeter.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?

Class still matters in Britain today.

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.