Oti Mabuse Quotes

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

Discrimination is a disease.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

In many fields … favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

The deck has always been stacked against me.

I experienced a lot of discrimination in the military. One commander told me that if my time of the month got in the way of my job, he would fire me. An instructor in pilot training continually failed me for subjective things, like judgment and situational awareness--I couldn't get him to tell me what I was doing wrong.

I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.