David Harewood Quotes

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

The U. S, Social Security Act not only takes the Afro-American for a ride, but aids immediately in perpetuating his inferior status, What we see here, as in most other 'liberal' legislation, in a further stratifying of the Negro at the bottom of the ladder of life. .

Most insurance companies are run by white males who have little appreciation for the problems of minorities in the core cities.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State legislature.

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.

It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

Sadly, I've learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry - I did an interview with a magazine once, and the journalist quite openly said they wouldn't put a black person on the front cover because the magazine wouldn't sell.

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

Much of political decision-making concentrates power in the hands of those already inside the circle, who tend to be men. Excluding women may not be the intention, but when they are not invited into the room where decisions are made, you can see how it happens.

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.