Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role.

The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth.

America's racist, so what do you expect.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as a woman writer and as a writer of color. Also, it worries me when people point to a couple of women writers or writers of color who get some attention - and I am sometimes pulled into that category - to prove that others are getting a fair shot. It's like those people who keep saying that racism no longer exists in this country because Barack Obama was a President of the United States.

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]