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“Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?”

Ifs Knows Humans Hate Human Beings Color Concepts Skins Prejudice Racial Prejudice Baffled

Book:Rants

Source: Rants

“To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.”

Feels Self Would Be Skins Prejudice

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.”

“Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.”

Looks Matter Dark Hair Skins Prejudice Clean Cute Tone Shade Latino Lighters Hispanic Dark Hair Skin Tone

Author:John Byrne

“Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.”

Form Identity Skins Prejudice Gender Colour Just One Disability Mechanism Homophobia Gender Identity Markers Deviance Abjection

Author:Hal Duncan

“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”

“I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."”

Ifs Thinking World Said Girl Skins Prejudice Fingers Lips Changing The World

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.”

Should Faces Tree Perspective Bird Skins Prejudice Fingers Musical Patterns Characteristics Hats Strongest Squirrels

Author:Bertolt Brecht