Christopher Priest Quotes

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

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.

If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's still the ideal of beauty. When a black or Asian figure shows up in a fashion magazine, she's the exception, not the rule.

I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.

Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

I struggle with racism every day

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.