Unjustified Assumptions Quotes

Making false claims about somebody before you know them, and about a group of guys, that has no business in our world. If we're trying to promote peace and love, I don't think that has any place.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

I am very quick to judge.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

One thing that drives me crazy is when people tell me that I sound good for an athlete. They be like, 'You don't sound like you from Harlem.'

Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why: I weighed about eight stone and was six foot bleeding seven.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.