Quotes About Stereotypes

What's so funny?' asked Peone. 'Catholic cops are funny,' said Lester. 'You were listening?' 'Yeah.' 'Yeah? Catholic Indians are funny.' 'There's lots of Catholic Indians.' 'There's lots of Catholic cops.

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

She's the Sandwhich Lady. Excuse me? She delivers sandwiches to the homeless. Really. I can't imagine her in such a role. What do you mean? Well, she always seems so impulsive, so emotional. What's the word I'm searching for? So individualistic. Not tribal at all...

Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.

Whites and Indians laughed at most of the same jokes, but they laughed for different reasons.

Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.

Tr?i ?, bà nói. Ai quan tâm n?u má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông mu?n l?y má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông khác? Bà ch? mu?n bi?t là ai s? Ä'i nh?t ??ng t?t b?n thôi? ------------------------------------- Trích Nh?t ký hoàn toàn có th?t c?a má»™t ng??i Anh ?iêng bán th?i gian

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work.

I'm not an Indian warrior chief. I'm not some demure little Indian woman healer talking spider this, spider that, am I? I'm not babbling about the four directions. Or the two-legged, four-legged, and winged. I'm talking like a twentieth-century Indian woman. Hell, a twenty-first century Indian, and you can't handle it, you wimp.

But it happens mostly because "being American" means "being white," even for a brown boy like me.

Bed the woman until neither of you can walk, and get her out of your system. Remember, no matter what they are or where they come from, all women have one simple birth defect. BPD. BPD? Bitch Personality Disorder.

My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)

You're not pregnant, are you? (Jack) What would make you think that? (Syd) Barefoot. Pregnant. Them things go hand in hand, 'cause them pregnant women have feet that can swell up to ten times their normal size. (Jack)

It's odd, isn't it? The poor hate the rich for having a life they think is easy and for the fact that they think the rich only got the money by screwing them. The rich think the poor are all rustics lacking manners and grace who are unwilling to work as hard as they do to get the money. Both groups see each other as thieves out to steal everything they've earned.

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.