Chris Rock Quotes

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Beware of bad Asians

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

Racism springs from ignorance.

You face racism in small and large ways.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Those goddamn coons. They drive up and down Lake Shore Drive in front of my house. I hate them. I’m scared of them, and I think I’ll move to Switzerland where there just aren’t any.

… the imbecile and indolent Mexican race

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.