Malorie Blackman Quotes

Colored people are quite ignorant, mostly uneducated and I doubt that they would seek an education if they had an opportunity.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Racism springs from ignorance.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

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.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

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

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

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.

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.