Hornswoggle Quotes

I have had strangers come up to me and attempt to mimic the Chinese language in a derogatory manner. I have been told countless times that I speak 'good' English. I have been asked why someone like me would be interested in watching NFL football. On any given day, if I walk around with a camera, I will be mistaken for a tourist from Asia.

White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

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.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

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.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions.

A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.