Quotes About Stereotype

Clarice sabía lo que suele ocurrirle a una mujer si deja que se le cuelgue la etiqueta de secretaria: de secretaria se queda por los siglos de los siglos.

The African-American classical scholar Frank Snowden has argued that color prejudice did not exist in the Greco-Roman world.35 "In the Mediterranean world," he notes, "the black man was seldom a strange, unknown being." Further, "in antiquity slavery was independent of race or class," so the stereotype of the black human as inherently slavish never developed as it did in the era of the middle passage.

Prayer is often stereotyped in our culture as a form of pietism, a lamentable privatization of religion. Even many Christians seem to regard prayer as a grocery list we hand to God, and when we don't get what we want, we assume that the prayers didn't "work." This is privatization at its worst, and a cosmic selfishness.

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

The white man who is our agent is so stingy that he carries a linen rag in his pocket into which to blow his nose, for fear he might blow away something of value. — Piapot

Every once in a while I would have to go to a powwow and put on some feathers so you could believe I was a real Indian. But other than that you would think I was smarter and more important if I lived in a big house and owned lots of things. That's just the way white people are. It's the way you are trained.

I try to avoid confrontations with white trash, but sometimes they don't give you no selection.

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap.

All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.

You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

Yeah, but you're a girl. The braver species.

Leave it to the woman to save the day—and the mansel in distress.

What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons

You never see a motorcycle parked outside a psychiatrist's office.

There are no mothers-in-law in ballet.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.