Accepting Quote by Kal Penn

I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it…

— Kal Penn

I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against…

— Ayanna Pressley

I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they…

— Rod Serling

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

— Rosie Perez

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

— Naomie Harris

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the…

— Mark Takano

It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged,…

— Carson Grant

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In…

— Bill Watterson

I went crazy. I was sending angry letters to every newspaper editorial board in the country. It was designed to step on Soul Train…

— Don Cornelius

I never aspired to the local political fiefdom thing that a lot of people ascribed me to. I saw myself as a guy who…

— Al Sharpton

My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand…

— John Lewis