Quotes About Stereotypes

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

Me and my friends used to joke about the fact that you don't see a Black man on a horse.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

I think there's too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

'Friends' was great fun, but I was just there so they could make some funny jokes about England.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis.

They thought I was mad, and Russians are always sympathetic with mad men.

Y porque no lo tengan por maricón, ahaje ese cuello y agobie de espaldas; la capa caída, que siempre nosotros andamos de capa caída; ese hocico, de tornillo: gestos a un lado y a otro; y haga vucé de las g, h y de las h, g. Diga conmigo: gerida, mogino, jumo, pahería, mohar, habalí y harro de vino.

Hay quienes tienen terror a las mujeres, que son tan inofensivas e inferiores.

The definitions of ourselves, of others and of everything that surrounds us prevent us from being and understanding who we are, keeping us prisoners of a separate reality based on definitions. We define ourselves and others incessantly with words, judgments, labels based on appearance, age, sex, race, culture, income, intelligence, character, etc. Who are you and who are others beyond their definitions? Please do not answer!

Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

In every language, labels for adulterous women are far worse than those for similarly adventurous men. When a woman is a "a slut," a man is merely a skirt chaser.

It is the racist who creates the inferiorized.