Quotes About Stigma

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

The only thing more suspicious than a black man running is a black man tippy-toeing.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

because the thing he hadn't understood then (he was happier not knowing it) was that once you were in prison, you never got out. People treated you like a different person; you tended to backslide, the way people tended to backslide into malaria or bad alcoholism

Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.

Although most people on welfare are not Black, many Americans think they are. The American public associates welfare payments to single mothers with the mythical black welfare queen, who deliberately becomes pregnant in order to increase the amount of her monthly check. The welfare queen represent laziness, chicanery, and economic burden all wrapped up in one powerful image.

Nobody ever mentions the good side of OxyContin: It makes you feel like Jesus fucking a horse.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

In my day if a man was mad he was mad and we didn't look about for scientific terms to soften it down.

But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man." -- Evelyn Howard

From an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.