“What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.” KindMeanBlackTermWorstConditionsMusicianAbusePrejudiceJazzExploitationNastyWorking Conditions Author:Maxim Gorky
“As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” WorldPersonsHas BeensPoliticalBlackTruth IsPrejudiceStrangerBlack Person Author:Shirley Chisholm
“The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.” MenWayFirstsYoungBlackColorProtectJudgmentPrejudiceBest WayBrown Author:Hill Harper
“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.” LittlesLongTwoShowsEarthHeavenBlackChurchWhiteSunDrinkAngelRainPrejudiceCloudsBlowHeavyStormCleaningTrumpetsSweepingPasturesNightingalesFood And Drink Author:Jacques Roumain
“[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.” MeanDoeFactsSchoolBlackWillingProductsConstitutionPrejudiceCourtAssumingMereInferiorsViolationUnconstitutional Author:Clarence Thomas
“Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.” PeopleWantLastsHateCoursesBlackPrejudiceCatholicCatholicismBlack PeopleHomosexualRespectable Author:Tom Clancy
“Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.” PeopleMenHas BeensHomeDesireForceEasyBlackWealthWhiteResultsModernConditionsPrejudiceSlaveryBlack PeopleAncestorQuestsWhite ManUnworthyEasy Life Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.” PeopleIfsMeanPastFilmDifficultBlackWhiteQualityParticularPrejudiceAssumingCastsBlack And WhiteMean People Author:Romany Malco