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Quotes About Stereotypes

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
~ Julie Walters
Qué raro, verdad, que una mujer no pueda olerse como la huele el hombre.
~ Julio Cortazar
Nada me impresiona más que los hombres que lloran. Nuestra cobardía nos ha hecho considerar el llanto como cosa de mujercitas. Cuando solo lloran los valientes: por ejemplo, los héroes de Homero".
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
~ Julius Rosenwald
Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?
~ Junot Diaz
When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
~ Junot Diaz
Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit.
~ Junot Diaz
She is an exceptionally beautiful girl. You think of that old saying Show me a beautiful girl and I'll show you someone who is tired of fucking her.
~ Junot Diaz
In my universe, when a dork like Oscar pushes up on a girl like Jenni, he usually gets bounced faster than your tía Daisy's rent checks, but Jenni must have had brain damage or been really into fat loser nerdboys, because by the end of February she was actually treating him all civil and shit.
~ Junot Diaz
That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.
~ Junot Diaz
To be called boycrazy in a country like Santo Domingo is a singular distinction; it means that you can sustain infatuations that would reduce your average northamericana to cinders.)
~ Junot Diaz
dude never had much luck with the females (how very un-Dominican of him).
~ Junot Diaz
Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.
~ Junot Diaz
It's disheartening, me and Magda together. We don't look like a couple. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage. When I smile folks check their wallets.
~ Junot Diaz
Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others are born of it.
~ Justice Calo Reign
I believe it's incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes.
~ Justine Larbalestier
Dla nas, Europejczyków, Chiny by?y wci?? jeszcze czyst? kart?, dziewiczym obszarem dla naszych w?asnych wyobra?e?. Raz by?y niebem, raz piek?em, innym razem znów "?ó?tym niebezpiecze?stwem", rzadko kto? rozró?nia? stany po?rednie.
~ Kai Strittmatter
And they say women act on emotions when it comes to cars." - Simone Fortuna in Anti-Nice Guy: Rip by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Authenticity in casting is when you cast someone into a role that is authentic to that role's race and ethnicity. When you are casting a role for an American Indian, cast an American Indian actor. When casting a role for a Chinese, cast a Chinese heritage or Chinese actor, not another Asian ethnicity. That is true authenticity in casting, and does not perpetuate the stereotype that 'All Asians look alike' which is very offensive and not true.
~ Kailin Gow
Alguien ha dicho que el hombre es, a los diez años, un animal; a los veinte, un loco; a los treinta, un fracasado; a los cuarenta, un falsario y a los cincuenta, un criminal.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
New York City vagrant: "What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?" Kakuzo Okakura responds: "We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?
~ Kakuzo Okakura
I hate the Muslims who make people hate Muslims, he'd replied quietly.
~ Kamila Shamsie
George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us
~ Kanye West
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
~ Kanye West