Charles Bukowski Quotes

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

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

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

The world is still very bigoted.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

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

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

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

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.