Quotes about Prejudice

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.