Quotes About Stereotypes

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.

To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis is not a freak sport where you need to have rich parents, who sit in your players' box for every single week of the whole year, and you need to talk to your coaches' box between every shot.'

Sometimes those labels that the league puts on players aren't right.

Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is the culture and society.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

A lot of people think I'm a chick. It happens the most at airports. The flight attendants will always say, 'Have a nice flight, Ms. Borns.' It must be the hair.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA - I'm five foot three, I'm not a model, and I never wanted to be one.

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.