Quotes About Stereotypes

Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.

We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to be for them. I find it infuriating.There's a lot more going on in my books than just romance.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

I thought wrestling was the stuff where people jumped off ropes. So that was my experience with wrestling.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.