Racist Quotes - Page 30

• No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Silence, Black, Calling

  11 Copy quote

• Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

  Keith Ellison

  Hate, Wings, Hysteria

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

  Kristen Stewart

  Knowing, People, Ignorant

  8 Copy quote

• I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

  Ishmael Reed

  Medical Problems, Racism, Suffering

  9 Copy quote

• A lot of racism going on in the world right now. Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. You know why? 'Cuz we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people.

  Chris Rock

  Hate, White, Racism

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TVSpecial, www.imdb.com. June 1, 1996.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Hysteria, Self

  "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

  Dick Gregory

  Thug, White, Racism

  13 Copy quote

• Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

  Tucker Carlson

  Calling, Language, National Language

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

  Toni Morrison

  Bully, Ignorant, World

  Toni Morrison (2009). “Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement”, p.2, Harper Collins

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, People, Stuff

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Mexican, Mind

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.

  Mila Kunis

  Real, Mad, Bears

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

  Claudia Rankine

  Role Models, Roles, Might

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Teenager, White, Black

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Father, Guy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comedy can be silly and gross and offensive, as long as there's sort of a point. You can make a joke that, on the face of it, is racist. Ostensibly someone can appear to be racist, but if you know you're making a point about race, and not just being pig-headed, then you can do that. I think some people who don't understand comedy will have a knee-jerk reaction to some stuff, and will always be offended by it because they don't understand it. Some people react to it in a vociferous way, which is unsophisticated, but there's always going to be those people out there.

  Steve Coogan

  Silly, Thinking, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

  Keith Ellison

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  Chuck Klosterman

  America, People, Devil

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

  Perry Brass

  Believe, Gay, Racism

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Thinking, Want, Might

  "Whoopi Goldberg Tells Katie Couric, "Life's Too Short to Be Anything but Chill"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. April 6, 2010.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

  Riyad Mansour

  Fashion, Creativity, Community

  "Fashion models strut in United Nations debate chambers" by Lorenzo Ferrigno, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Hate, Race, Play

  Source: www.goodreads.com

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source