Quotes About Stereotype

Why should I be afraid of you?' He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.' I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

Whitefolks couldn't be people because their feet were too small, their skin too white and see-throughy, and they didn't walk on the balls of their feet the way people did - they walked on their heels like horses.

I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.

Lana looked at me like I'd just said I'd never watched Bring It On, or something.

we'll save a lot on child care, since professors only work about three hours a week, so Tadd can stay home with them.

For some reason, Eliza had always thought Alexander Hamilton would be dark-haired, but he was in fact a ginger

Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.

No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don't seem to believe we can take care of ourselves." "Which is ridiculous," Rosa agreed, "Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that.

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

The men, who lumber around with Cowboys jerseys hanging past their coattails and their pants bagged around the heels of their boots, a fatal foreshortening of vertical line that makes them look like a bunch of hulking twelve-year-olds.

You go back to your kitchen, woman.

If there's one thing a Puritan fears, it's a woman.

When I came into Red Bull, everyone thought, 'He's just the happy, nice guy; he's fast, but he can't race hard with these top guys.' That was a reputation I had to dismiss.

Boneless skinless chicken breasts don't give a damn about their bad reputation. They don't care that you think of them as pale, dry, and rubbery.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.