Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Racism springs from ignorance.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

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

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

For all Sunday’s denouncing of sins, he never mentioned rotten, stinking, hell-born race prejudice. It is pitiable when we think of the thousands of white men in this country, claiming to be ministers of the gospel,—claiming to be ambassadors of God, representatives of Jesus Christ; and yet sitting down quietly in the midst of this spreading leprosy of race prejudice, and doing nothing to stay its ravages, content to have it spread, and to curse, as it is doing, both races,—embittering the Negro and debasing the white man.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.