Chris Rock Quotes

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

The same kinds of stereotypes and hunches that George Zimmerman used when deciding that, you know, Trayvon Martin seemed like a threat in his neighborhood, law enforcement officers employ all the time.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

When I came into this industry, was there racism? Yes.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.