Quotes About Stereotypes

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?

Folks that don't understand that our safety is born of their not seeing who we are and what we are, as long as we see ourselves clearly and understand that their chatter about us is fully ignorant and not to be considered.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they was naked. Their word for naked is white. But since they are covered by color they are not naked. They said anybody looking at a white person can tell naked, but black people can not be naked because they can not be white.

Leute mit Krawatten an sehn aus, wie wenn sie gelyncht werden.

Why are women so easily tramps and traitors when men are heroes for engaging in the same activity? Why do women stand for this?

Shug say, Wellsah, and I thought it was only whitefolks do freakish things like that.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Madam, I pray you, be governed by me, or some other wise person. With respect, you are a woman and in need of masculine guidance.

A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.

Este clar c? femeile sunt mai deÅŸtepte decît b?rbaÅ£ii. GîndiÅ£i-v? — cel mai bun prieten al lor sînt diamantele; cel mai bun prieten al b?rbaÅ£ilor este cîinele.

You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

There are some men who will always prefer to deal with another man, any man, rather than a woman ... I can see him struggling to place me: I'm not married to him, clearly I'm not his mother, I didn't go to school with his sister and I'm sure as hell not going to go to bed with him. So what, he must be asking himself as he chews on his pigeon, is this girl doing here? What is she for?

Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I

They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it's no good.

MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.

Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth.

I'm surprised you could get in," says the big man. "They've got to draft a certain number of unqualified inner-city kids to meet their quota. That means a lot less space for people like you." "People like what?" Fidelman asks, enunciating slowly and deliberately. People. Like. What? Nearly fifty years of being gay has taught Fidelman that it is a mistake to let certain statements pass unchallenged.

Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth. If