Richard Dormer Quotes

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.

I've always been 'other' in all the spaces that I've been in. Even when I first moved to America, just the idea that I was a dark-skinned black girl from England with an accent. It's one thing to be a black girl, but it's another to be a dark black girl. I was chastised for that. I was chastised for the way I spoke.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.

I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.