Quotes About Stereotypes

We have been led to think that to drink is manly, and to get in a condition where common sense has fled and the tongue is tangled is funny...

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white with a roller.

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

During most of my youth I lived on Earth." "Indeed?" Warweave raised his eyebrows in manufactured astonishment. "Out here, you know, we think of Earthmen in terms of stereotypes: cultists, mystics, hyper-civilized epicenes, sinister old men in Institute black, decadent aristocrats Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one's own sleep.

People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.

There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun.

It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion.

white man's unadmitted—and apparently, to him, unspeakable—private fears and longings are projected onto the Negro.

No,' he said, frankly, 'I don't. I don't believe all this female intuition shit. It's something women have dreamed up.' 'You can say that--and in such a tone!' she mimicked him: 'Something women have dreamed up. But I can't say that--what men have 'dreamed up' is all there is, the world they've dreamed up is the world.

White people invented black people to give white people identity…straight cats invented faggots so they can sleep with them without becoming faggots themselves. James Baldwin and Nikke Giovanni (1993)

You're sweet, funnyface," he sometimes said, "but, you know, you aren't really very bright." She was scarcely at all mollified by his adding. "Thank heaven. I hate bright women.

Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.

For a woman, old age is never pretty.

Ladies born in Year of Horse, with the fire sign, are thought to be . . . unlucky.

Claire De Haven is a promiscuous woman, women like that are unbalanced

Some Japs killed themselves. Who gives a shit? No tickee, no washee. Where's Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto? It's Sunday morning - this sure beats church.

I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men's board or the women's board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.