Carlos Mencia Quotes

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

Pakistanis are rarely introduced in popular media in any form except as a member of your friendly terrorist cell next door.

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

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.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

There's racism everywhere.

Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.