Christian McCaffrey Quotes

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

I became stereotyped.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

There are people who are blond and blue-eyes who are walking through airports that are terrorists. There are people who look exactly like me who are terrorists.

Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.