Quotes About Stigma

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

It can be embarrassing being associated with a character like Finchy - people naturally assume you're just like him. Some people come up and tell me the most appalling sexist or racist joke they know because they see me as him.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Someone said on social media that I was the son of Satan for being open about my sexuality. I told my mother, and she laughed and said, 'Well, what the hell does that make me?'

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

I used to be scared of people thinking I was gay but now I'd be shocked if they didn't.

In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to the music.

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you've died.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

Because of the way I look, I tend to play bad guys.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

People don't take badminton seriously. When I played, people never took me seriously.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

they share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don't wear masks or wield knives or drag women into the bushes. So they had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal said, "President Roosevelt has committed a blunder that is worse than a crime, and no atonement or future act of his can remove the self-imprinted stigma." Alabama's Geneva Reaper was especially harsh. "Poor Roosevelt!" the paper wrote. "He might now just as well sleep with Booker Washington, for the scent of that coon will follow him to the grave as far as the South is concerned.