Chubby Checker Quotes

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you've been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

White folks don't want peace; they want quiet. The price you pay for peace is justice.

To the average white man, a courthouse even in Mississippi is a place where justice is dispensed. To me, the black man, it is a place where justice is dispensed with.

You ask me, brother, why am I in here. Brother, why are you not in here?

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.

I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

There were things I wanted to do that I wouldn't be allowed to because of where I was born.

With my social media posts on fairness creams, I felt really strongly that I needed to speak up about it because I think we can take baby steps. Colour and caste is engrained in our culture, but I don't think it should be applauded or packaged and sold.