Marlon Wayans Quotes

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.

It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

I just want to see more understanding and less racism in sports.

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

Somebody had to shock the world and let people know how great we could be if we only put our biases aside.

Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

In so many ways, my soccer career taught me about seeing the value of all people, whether or not society sees it first. Relationships with people who are perceived to be 'different' have taught me the same lesson.

I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.

I've not experienced racism from other players. Not once. You experience ignorance but that's not the same at all, and I'm always happy to discuss things. If that helps people learn about Islam, to learn there's nothing to fear, then great, that's all part of my role.

Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation we have, the more of a problem that's going to be.

I had to try to understand how much of a taboo it was. My mum worked in ballet and theatre when she was younger, and I had been brought up around lots of gay people, so I had never had any issue and couldn't imagine how hard it was to be out.

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

In 1996, Muhammad Ali and I co-authored a short book about bigotry and prejudice that was keyed to religious and racial divisions. To spread the message, we visited schools in a half dozen cities across the country, talking with students about the need for tolerance and understanding.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

I think outing people is fear-based: the fear that if we don't out them, it will make things harder for all of us. It's important to treat people with love.

If we could truly experience one another, we could end bigotry.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.