Ethnicity quotes

“- Mrs. Malinski: It ain't right to be dancing on TV to that colored music.
- Edna Turnblad: She's just a teenager.”
Lydia Troy - Mrs. Malinski
Divine - Edna Turnblad

“I know all the sociological reasons why, per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men... Schools are a disgrace, lack of opportunity, bias in the judicial system, all that stuff... But still... but still, it's... it's gotta get to you, I mean, on a gut level, as a black man. They just can't keep their hands out of the...” (continue)(continue reading)
William Fichtner - Flanagan

“You know Chinese don't trust whites or cops, and you send me a white cop?”
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

- Zora Mathews: You're white.
- Halbert "Hal" Jackson: That's true, darling. But when we're alone in the dark, what difference is that gonna make?
Nia Long - Zora Mathews
Ted Danson - Halbert "Hal" Jackson

“- Anthony: If anybody should be scared around here, it's us: We're the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people, patrolled by the triggerhappy LAPD. So you tell me, why aren't we scared?
- Peter: Because we have guns?
- Anthony: You could be right.”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter

“The jazz, you know if we had to dep... if we had to depend upon black people to eat, we would starve to death. I mean, you've been out there, you're on the bandstand, you look out into the audience, what do you see? You see Japanese, you see, you see West Germans, you see, you know, Slabobic, anything except our people - it makes no sense. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Bleek Gilliam

“- Pavel: Muslims lived in this area for 600 years. The Nazis tried to wipe them out, then the communists and the Serbs.
- Cole: Why do this to them?
- Pavel: Language, religion, property, greed, you choose. Men kill other men and nobody knows why.”
Tamás Puskás - Pavel
Bokeem Woodbine - Cole

“I bet if you met your father he'd probably be Irish.”

Joe Pantoliano - Wayne Gross

“Within the Cheyenne tribe there used to be a military society made up of the strongest and bravest men. They were fierce fighters - unyielding. They called themselves Chotometnea - dogmen.”
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

“- Lisa: Not all white people are racist.
- Lesra: Not all black people are murderers.”
Deborah Kara Unger - Lisa
Vicellous Shannon - Lesra

“I'm the only normal one left around here. I'm a black Jew, I'm half drunk and I cant read.”
Jamie Foxx - Drew 'Bundini' Brown

“The white man gets all the best catchphrases!”
Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

“- Lexi: Mother, when you realize that not all people of color were put here to serve you?
- Chantal: Lexi, darling, how can say that? I've served food to the homeless. Good food. Food I'd eat myself if I still ate carbs.”
Marisa Tomei - Lexi
Christine Baranski - Chantal

“White folks get stranger all the time.”
Leonard Jackson - Smokey

“I've come to the conclusion there's no such thing as a beautiful Welsh boy. At any rate, all I've seen have been unparalleled frumps.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel, is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain and I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy, and that is right here [points to his head]. And that's why we've got to win this war.”

Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“The computer, another idea stolen from the black man.”
Dave Chappelle - Conspiracy Brother

“- Lance: I feel black.
- Conspiracy Brother: But you look white... don't touch me!”
Neil Patrick Harris - Lance
Dave Chappelle - Conspiracy Brother

“Hey, we ain't duckin' you man. You're just so black we can't find you!”

Damon Wayans - James 'The Grim Reaper' Roper

“- Louis Corsican: I'm your brother, Louis.
- Lucian Corsican: Liar, my brother wasn't Mexican.”
Cheech Marin - Louis Corsican
Tommy Chong - Lucian Corsican

“- Artemus Gordon: Gypsy, queen... pirate... How about this? You can come as my manservant.
- James West: Master Gordon, I swear, I'd be delghted! I sing, I dance for you sir and I swear none of the other white folks will know. I'd rather shoot myself than play your damn manservant.”

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Will Smith - James West

“- Suzanne Vale: Mom, this is my roommate, Aretha.
- Doris Mann: Aretha, what an unusual name.
- Aretha: Yes, I think my parents were expecting someone black.”
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Robin Bartlett - Aretha

“- Chucho Montoya: A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man?
- Sam: Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it.
- Chucho Montoya: My government can go...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Amendola - Chucho Montoya
Chris Cooper - Sam

“- Mr. Big Nose: I warned you. I'm going to punch you so hard, you Roman git!
- Parvus: Shut up, you Jewish turd!
- Mr. Big Nose: Who are you calling Jewish? I'm not Jewish! I'm a Samaritan!
- Gregory: A Samaritan? This is supposed to be a Jewish section.”
Michael Palin - Mr. Big Nose
Bernard McKenna - Parvus
Terence Bayler - Gregory

“How often do I have to tell you, I'm brown, you're white!”

Seamus O'Brien - Sardu