Quotes About Discrimination

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I'm one of those people who is colour blind to a certain degree. And that doesn't mean I'm not acutely aware of race in our country and abroad and in the world. I know what's going on, and I'm very aware of it.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

No one comments if they think a man has lost weight or if they think he needs to eat more.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of 'intersectionality' than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

I feel anxious for my children because tomorrow, if a mob surrounds them and asks, 'Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?' they will have no answer.

There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.

Like with all the Arabs, they use the 'suspect procedure' on me. I arrive four hours before the flight. They do a body search in a back room behind the curtain and then escort me onto the plane because they're afraid that on the way I might pick up a bomb from someone.