Stacey Abrams Quotes

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors and have extra things to prove.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

I can't tell you the number of times I have been underestimated, objectified or deprived of fair credit for my accomplishments based on my gender or ethnicity.

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.