If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

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

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Racism is real in this country.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.