Ethnicity quotes

“If the entire Secret Service couldn't protect the President of the United States, how the hell are we supposed to protect a few negroes! It is nothing more than some poor white trash drinking too much cheap alcohol. More likely paint thinner and snake juice because this state's as dry as a martini, and we've got the alcoholics to prove it.”
R. Lee Ermey - Mayor Tilman

“- Danny Archer: What if I helped you find your family?
- Solomon Vandy: What do you know of my family?
- Danny Archer: Relief agencies are useless, the hospitals are overwhelmed. There are other ways, bro.
- Solomon Vandy: Liar!
- Danny Archer: I know people, huh? White people. Without me, you're just another black man in Africa, alright?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Danny Archer
Djimon Hounsou - Solomon Vandy

“- Maria Elena Santiago: I'm Puerto Rican. And you're, you're not.
- Charles Hardin 'Buddy' Holly: So I'll change my name to Chihuahua.”
Maria Richwine - Maria Elena Santiago
Gary Busey - Charles Hardin 'Buddy' Holly

“Got a couple of tips... help you guys stay out of jail. One: try your hardest to not be Black or Hispanic.”
Damon Wayans Jr. - Fosse

“What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.”
Gregory Alan Williams - Darryl

“- Roy O'Bannon: What? You're a Maharajah! That's Indian royalty!
- Chon Wang: But I'm Chinese.
- Roy O'Bannon: It's the same thing.”
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang

“- Lt. A.K. Waters: What've you got?
- Kelly Lake: Ringside seats to an ethnic cleansing.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Lieutenant A.K. Waters
Johnny Messner - Kelly Lake

“- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: What was that?
- Pvt. DuBois: Appears to be a large Negro, sir.”

Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
J. Patrick McNamara - Pvt. DuBois

“- Mayor Tilman: Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture, and a colored culture. Now, that's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be.
- Anderson: Rest of America don't see it that way, Mr. Mayor.
- Sheriff Ray Stuckey: Rest of America don't mean jack shit. You are in Mississippi now.”
R. Lee Ermey - Mayor Tilman
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“- John Cutter: Charlie, ever played roulette?
- Charles Rane: On occasion.
- John Cutter: Well, let me give you a word of advice. Always bet on black!”
Wesley Snipes - John Cutter
Bruce Payne - Charles Rane

“- Obnoxious Girl: What do you mean you don't have bread, how can you not have bread?
- Andrew Largeman: We're a Vietnamese restaurant, we just don't have bread.
- Obnoxious Girl: Well, you're not Vietnamese.
- Andrew Largeman: No, I'm not.
- Obnoxious Girl: Can I have something to chew on! Fuck, bamboo! Whatever!”

Jill Flint - Obnoxious Girl
Zach Braff - Andrew Largeman

“- Dana Marschz: You can't let your ethnic narrow-mindedness stop your son from thriving in our culture.
- Mr. Marquez: I have to take exception to that characterization.”
Steve Coogan - Dana Marschz
Marco Rodríguez - Mr. Marquez

“Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination.”

Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

“White folks just don't like to be pushed into a corner. They'll come around. You just got to make it look like it was their idea, like they're the ones that thought of it. They need to feel like they're the great emancipators. Like it was theirs to give in the first place. If that's all it takes, let them have it.”
Laurence Fishburne - Edward

“- Roger Murtaugh: Of course I'm black. That's why I want to go to South Africa...to join my oppressed brothers as they take up the struggle against this racist, fascist, white minority regime!
- Leo Getz: Racist white regime!
- Roger Murtaugh: One man, one vote!”
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“Without question we are all Black Americans! You don't know a god damn thing about Africa! I am from Detroit. Motown. So you can watusi your monkey ass back to Africa if you want to!”
Giancarlo Esposito - Julian

“Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green.”
Nona Gaye - Belinda Ali

“White boys ain't about that gang shit though, huh? Especially not white boys like you who don't look like no Slim Shady. White boys like you the ones who did some fucked up shit, huh?”

Michael Peña - Guillermo

“Short and sweet? How very Japanese of you.”

Bill Murray - Bob Harris

- Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Tell me something, Buster: what do you think of Negroes?
- Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain: If you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you can not judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“In the horrific deaths of Emmett Till, Reverend G.W. Lee, Lamar Smith and a variety of other atrocities, no one has been convicted. And we feel that those guilty of having commited these ungodly acts have the feeling of assurance that nothing ever would be done. For you see, ladies and gentlemen, white juries have yet to convict a white man in...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Pickens Jr. - Medgar Evers

“- English: Now I figure there's two reasons why you didn't sit down on my step. Either you're too scared, or you just hate niggers. Now which is it, boy? You too scared?
- Frank Morris: Nah. I just hate niggers.”

Paul Benjamin - English
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“If you think N'Sync is where your dirty dishes are, you might be a redneck.”
Jeff Foxworthy - Jeff Foxworthy

“- Brian Palmer: Latina women?
- Helen Palmer: White woman with a taco.
- Brian Palmer: So I just guess Asian women...
- Helen Palmer: A white woman that doesn't speak a da goddamn English!”

Bill Bellamy - Brian Palmer
Aloma Wright - Helen Palmer

“- Amelia: Hey, honey. How's Alaska?
- Ted Brooks: Oh, just great. Everything's white. Including my father!”
Nichelle Nichols - Amelia
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Ted Brooks