Quotes About Stereotype

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren't as strong as men - they can't even hold their booze as well as men.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!'

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

When people think Down South they think: 'They're not up on game,' or 'They ain't hip.'

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.

There are designations, like "economist," "prostitute," or "consultant," for which additional characterization doesn't add information.

had I not known his profession I would have thought

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does.

Whores are natural

If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.

Instead I learned that the poor usually stay poor. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing.