Quotes About Stigma

White man get money - stay rich, kids get rich. Black man get money - it's the countdown till, 'When is this brother gonna go broke?' I'm not going broke.

I think it is time people realized that people with Down syndrome can be sexy and beautiful and should be celebrated.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

I hope we can dismantle the idea that the entire south is sitting on our porches spitting tobacco and hating gay people.

I used to live in a street in Bristol which was, depending on your tabloid of choice, either Britain's most dangerous street or a moral cesspit. People made judgments about me on where I lived. It affected me - it affected my life chances. That is going on today with people in social housing. That, to me, isn't acceptable.

I wouldn't want to be known as Mr Depression, but I found that when I did dip a toe in the water and talk about it, the response from the public was incredible.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

She was lonely, but she'd never tell anyone that. If you admitted you were lonely, people assumed there was something wrong with you. The media talked about an epidemic of loneliness, and yet admitting that you felt that way was a statement of failure.

Am I really mentally ill? Disordered? Defective? Or am I just weak of character and just not trying hard enough?

Many women still see their disorganization issues as a character flaw.

You'll always be a fat girl. You don't know how to be anything else.

I look at the world like frost in a windowpane, confused, unseeing, and I wait for a solution which will never come. I see the world through eyes glazed over, searching for relief from the ungodly pain. Fuck the stigma. I just want normalcy.

Q: What do you call a fat Chinaman? A: A chunk.

Q: Why do Jewish men watch porn films backward? A: They love the bit where the prostitute gives back the money.

Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a hooker? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and reuse it.