Quotes About Stereotypes

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality.

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

Pourquoi croit-on que derrière un beau visage se cache obligatoirement une belle âme?Pourquoi vit-on à une époque ou tout le monde veut être jeune et svelte alors que, après un certain age le combat est perdu d'avance?

En nuestra clase social pareciera que solo al llegar a ancianos dejamos de ser «niños» o «niñas». Es común escuchar «deberías andar con ese niño» o «esa niña es increíble» al hablar de hombres y mujeres que rebasan los cuarenta años. La absoluta infantilización del lenguaje que engendra adolescentes cuarentones.

Zelda is black and fat. Yolanda is Mexican and homely. Antonio is a cross-eyed Dominican. Duane is of mixed race and has no teeth. Lucille is albino. Elisa is mute. To Fleming, they are all the same: unfit for other work and therefore easy to trust.

Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

But a smart Mexican comes into this country with the understanding gabachos will always dismiss them as idiots. To get ahead, then, many Mexicans pretend not to recognize English so their gabacho bosses can entrust them with all the company secrets—codes, financial figures, and the all-important personal telephone number of the secretary.

Speak Spanish, get accused of separatism. Speak English, get laughed at for thick accents and limited vocabularies. Many Mexicans speak English to Mexican workers out of gratitude—the fast-food counter is the only place Mexicans can feel like Americans by speaking the shared language of haggling with Mexican workers over the cost of fries.

the old Warner Bros. cartoons, that studio can go to la chingada. It's this studio's fault that gabachos always try to imitate Mexicans with accents more refried than a Taco Bell special.

Tellingly, the Latinos who frequented his stand eschewed the tacos in favor of hot dogs and hamburgers. He racked up sales that opening day, but no one wanted the tacos. Finally, a white man ordered one, mispronouncing it as "take-oh." The shell was already cold, waiting for its fillings; Bell prepared it and handed it to the gentleman. Juice from the ground beef inside dribbled on his pinstriped suit, but the man ordered another. Bell was ecstatic.

Ellos acostumbran a embadurnarnos de trago por todas partes. Les encanta beber trago de nuestras vaginas.

I've decided that all women are basically miserable. The single ones are miserable because they haven't found a husband, and the married ones are miserable because they have found a husband.

envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?

The weather reduces everyone to platitudes.

But language is power. Words do make a difference. They can reinforce stereotypes, cause offense, undermine, hurt, and humiliate. You don't have to wrap everything you say in cotton wool, but you should choose your words carefully. Good communication is about courtesy and kindness as well as clarity and getting your message across.

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?

Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream max: want to jog? (chester screams).

their jaws grow large, and their lips grow coarse, like the poor Paddies who eat potatoes.

There is no equal to poor white trash when they get their hands on a Bible.

Being a Negro's a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don't matter. You just a Negro to the world.

He ain't gonna live long, child. He's crazy. He thinks the n***ers's equal to the white man.