Jean Rhys Quotes

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

I'm really white trash.

I have been disgusted to find that those people (immigrants) can live where a decent man would die; they can live on ... food that other men would not touch.

If you are accused of racism, to deny racism is proof of racism.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

it’s very easy to blame people.

It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you scream? Why didn't you try to do something?' That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

I think that's one of the reasons women don't tell people when they've had a miscarriage - they think it's their fault.

For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

You can't judge people for favouring somebody. That happens in every field.

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.