It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

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

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

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.

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

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‚You know, there’s no sound in outer space.‘

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

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

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.

Everything popular is wrong.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

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.

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 concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

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

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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.

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

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

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

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

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

The white man is destroying the world.

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

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

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