Steph McGovern Quotes

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

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

All labels are offensive in some way.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Beware of bad Asians

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I was going to go to a Gathering of the Juggalos but decided that wouldn't work. They would know I was there to make fun of them. It would be like me going to a Trump rally.

Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

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.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

I became stereotyped.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.