James Lankford Quotes

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.