Charles Murray Quotes

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

The working class is very under-represented in politics, literature, and everywhere else.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

Being young, working class, and black, everything you do is policed. If someone hits you and you hit back, you are aggressive. If you cry, you are weak. You are kind of always pretending to be something.

Minorities often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to the Valley and tech start-ups in general.

The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy. If it's a comedy with Latinos in it, it's a Latino comedy. 'Normal' is white male, and I find that to be shocking and ridiculous.

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'

I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.

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

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.

I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

I've always believed there are inequities in our country.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.