Quotes About Stereotype

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

They called Bill Parcells 'conservative' when he was winning two Super Bowls.

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.

I recalled a report of a shoe-shine boy who had encountered the best treatment in the South simply by wearing a white turban instead of his usual Dobbs or Stetson, and I fell into a fit of laughing.

Don't judge a book by its cover, someone said.

So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all...

Why do you write strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.

Why does Switzerland look like one big cuckoo clock to me? Dan asked. Because you have no sould, Amy answered.

I'm not difficult, I'm decisive. If a woman puts you on hold, she's considered a bitch.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."[

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

El estereotipo social que muestra a la persona ética como un ser aburrido, aguafiestas o mojigato es absurdo y carece de todo fundamento.

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

if the world had helped us from the beginning, we never would have reached this point. Some think that we're religious fundamentalists. But nobody forces me to fast during Ramadan.

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

The mullet is the reason why people hate you. They are sick of looking at your nappy wheat sack. Nobody wants to look at you with that mullet on your head. Why don't you cut that mullet, you numbskull?

She believed that "British cuisine" was an oxymoron

In the Middle East, people of discretion or either spice or terrorists. – Nadia al-Bakari

Your problem is that you're Russian - you don't know how to be happy.