Quotes About Stereotype

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.

Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.

They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

Whether he likes it or not, the black man has to wear the livery the white man has fabricated for him

Dernièrement, un camarade nous racontait cette histoire. Un Martiniquais arrivant au Havre entre dans un café. Avec une parfaite assurance, il lance : « Garrrçon ! un vè de biè. » Nous assistons là à une véritable intoxication. Soucieux de ne pas répondre à l'image du nègre-mangeant-les-R, il en avait fait une bonne provision, mais il n'a pas su répartir son effort.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It should be noted that the Honorable Guild of Evil Warlords has worked very hard to counter the negative stereotype of its members. After several dozen bake sales and charity auctions, someone suggested that they remove the word evil from the title of their organization. The suggestion was eventually rejected on account of Gurstak the Ruthless having just ordered a full box of embossed business cards.) The

Our culture is quick to dismiss quiet, ordinary, hardworking men and women. In many instances, we equate ordinary with boring or, even more dangerous, ordinary has become synonymous with meaningless.

admiration —and surprise. It was nearly unheard of for a woman to hold property, he knew, even a woman of her rank and independence. "And you feel

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

There's no such thing as a murderer's face," he said. "You imagine something: a profile, a hairline, a set of the jaw. But it never matches up.

The English are the most romantic people in the world.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell at you, but it's nice.