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Quotes About Stereotype

It's not clear if he can dunk (no one's ever seen him try) but he can definitely grab the rim and that alone is pretty impressive given that he's five eleven and three-quarters. —Which, for the record, is the perfect height for an Asian dude. Tall enough for women to notice (even in heels! even White women!), tall enough to not get ignored by the bartender, but not so tall to get called Yao Ming and considered some kind of Mongolian freak.
~ Charles Yu
The heart of the show, Black and White is 'dunt eat too much Chinese food.
~ Charles Yu
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.
~ Cherie Priest
I immediately felt better about killing him. I've never known a Trevor who wasn't a total douchebag. It's just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he'd been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.
~ Cherie Priest
Yes it's pink. That's how you know it's for ladies. That might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.
~ Cherie Priest
I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.
~ Cherie Priest
why don't they call white-skinned people rice-ish?).
~ Chetan Bhagat
A corpulent man strolled in front of us, sweating and drinking soda from a straw. He was fat enough that each step cost him something.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Women don't fart — it's just glittery puffs of unicorn giggles.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
Wine makes old wives wenches.
~ English proverb
We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there's that SCI-FI shit.
~ Hal Duncan
Like many from Lazy America, she is short, and some people have called her fat, but those people haven't talked much after that.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Man muss wohl als Frau auch immer ein bisschen Nazi sein.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
neo-blaxploitation
~ Harry M. Benshoff
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you've reached beyond stereotype.
~ Hazel Rochman
Vlad's feet slowed to a stop. "But I'm not goth." Both Snow and October stopped in their tracks and stared at him. "Wow, Vlad!" Snow shouted. "You're so goth you don't even know you're goth.
~ Heather Brewer
What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?
~ Laurie Viera Rigler
And this is why I have concluded that although every racial, ethnic, and religious group in the United States claims to want a piece of the American dream, there is no group that apologizes more for its success than black people.
~ Lawrence Otis Graham
The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism , as saving them trouble & expense. — Aleister Crowley . 1929-03-09 diary entry.
~ Lawrence Sutin
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.
~ lederer katy
She was a middle-aged white woman with big cheeks—front and rear—
~ Lee Goldberg
He had the wide toothy smile of the Oriental.
~ Len Deighton
I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
~ Lena Horne