Sam Esmail Quotes

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

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.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

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

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons and Possums

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

… the imbecile and indolent Mexican race

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

My grandmother, when she was young, would've walked past shops where some folks had out a sign that said, 'No Mexicans or dogs allowed.'

The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

I grew up in a Britain where 'Paki-bashing' was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had 'Pakis Go Home,' and even 'Jewel In The Crown' attracted this sort of comment.