Quotes About Stereotype

The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

People assume that I'm this trashy motel girl, and that those are the only roles I can play, but I really take it seriously, and I know that I can do more.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

Discorde de alguém da direita e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é estúpido, errado, tolo, um bobo. Discorde de alguém da esquerda e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é egoísta, traidor da causa, insensível, possivelmente mau14

In the South's calculation it took only "one drop" of black blood to make a person black.

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

You mean he's not afraid of me because I'm a woman? He ought to see Tomb Raider sometime. For all he knows, I could have a nuclear bomb under my dress and a hand grenade in each cup of my bra. I call it antifeminist!

People with money spend it wisely, ghetto people spend it trying to be what they think rich people are

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?

He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.

It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.

I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.

That doesn't offend me. 'Witch' is the label society slaps on women it can't understand or control.

That doesn't offend me. 'Witch' is the label society slaps on women it can't understand or control. But feel free to call me Harriett. And you are?

A dogs being huge or big in size doesn't mean its fierce as being small isn't fierce

He doesn't look like the type who's into cookies anyway.

Dance class, huh?" he said. "You don't look the type." "And what does that mean?" I asked. "You're not built like a dancer," he commented. "You should probably stop talking now," I advised. "Got a little bit more meat on your bones than those girls you see on TV." "You should definitely stop talking now." I glared.