Khoudia Diop Quotes

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.

If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

I know a bigot when I see a bigot.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

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.

The world is still very bigoted.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

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

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

You face racism in small and large ways.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.