Quotes About Discrimination

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

We have to eradicate caste.

It has become impossible for India to talk about caste with any candour.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

I was told by people who wanted to 'help' me that, although I had checked the box on the skills they wanted to see in the quarterly evaluation, they thought that I might want to cut my long hair so that I looked less young.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

I have learnt to become choosy.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves - be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads - the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.

I have never used a fairness cream in my life. I don't think being fair is in any way superior to any other colour. And when I started working, I found that being fair has actually backfired for me. I have lost a few films because I'm too fair.

Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.