James Lankford Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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.

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

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.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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

Foolish and vain indeed is the workingman who makes the color of his skin the stepping-stone to his imaginary superiority.

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

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

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.