Lavrenti Lopes Quotes

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

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.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

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 go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

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.