“Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.” WantFeelsVoiceRaceHeardColorTreatedOrientationAndroidsCyborg Author:Janelle Monae
“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.” PeopleMenWayFeelsBelieveStatesCharacterWantedI BelieveSpaceStreetsColorNormalDrawsTreatedHarassmentHyperStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.” BigsColorHairTreatedMaskConditioningCoarse Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.” PeopleWayLevelsHappenedStageColorTablesTreatedDiscourseNoticing Author:Junot Diaz
“Donald Trump is a man who was the star of a network reality show that helped to create templates for the abysmally biased way in which women and people of color, in particular women of color, have been treated in reality TV for the last decade and a half.” PeopleMenWayHas BeensShowsRealityLastsStarsHalfParticularColorTvsTrumpDecadesTreatedBiasedReality TvReality Shows Author:Jennifer Pozner
“Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.” PeopleThinkingWorldAmericaNationsSportsSeeingColorBecomingInvolvedTreatedInequalityAround The WorldGreat NationsBecoming Involved Author:John Carlos
“I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.” PeopleNeedsShouldRealizingColorSkinsAnd LoveWaveTreatedLoudPreferencePeace And LoveLove And RespectTidal Waves Author:Jim James