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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.