Jordan Peele Quotes

Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

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

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

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

We have a fair amount of racism.

This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture . . . I’m not saying he doesn't like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

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.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.