Quotes About Discrimination

Dixie people wouldn't have listened to a black woman

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha'i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.

Most Russians believe they've never met an LGBT person in their lives. Also they immediately see LGBT people as 'other,' lending to the success of singling the group out as a 'problem.'

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

Both in Raleigh and in Washington, middle class shouldn't mean second class.

I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

It shouldn't be normal to seldom see a single female face in a managerial position or on the boards of the biggest media companies, or to feel out of place sitting in a meeting room full of middle-class, middle-aged white men explaining to you how to tell your own story.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

Before I came to Milwaukee, I'd heard the city was the most segregated in the country. I'd heard it was racist. When I got here, it was extremely segregated. I've never lived in a city this segregated.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.