Quotes About Stereotype

Was everything redneck actually mystical?

Your such a bot!!!

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "Goddamn it, Otto, you are an alcoholic." "Goddamn it, Otto, you have Lupus." One of those two doesn't sound right.

The anonymous black male is usually an ambiguous figure who arouses the utmost caution and is generally considered dangerous until he proves that he is not.

Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else." "Good one, Ona

For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Scratch a "libertarian" these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Being rich is associated with being intelligent in our society. Thus, all the billionaires and millionaires make sense every time they talk.

Men who call strong women shrews," she said in a tone formed of sugar syrup and molasses, "are often men scared of a woman's strength.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

To modern conservatives, women are first and foremost breeders.

Populated by what many dismissed as "useless lubbers" (conjuring the image of sleepy and oafish men lolling about doing nothing), North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony. Despite being English, despite having claimed the rights of freeborn Britons, lazy lubbers of Poor Carolina stood out as a dangerous refuge of waste people, and the spawning ground of a degenerate breed of Americans.14

1929, with his appearance in the movie Hearts in Dixie, the very visible African American actor known as Stepin Fetchit began a film career in which he popularized for an entire generation the crude stereotype of laziness suggested by his on-screen name.

North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony.

Populated by what many dismissed as "useless lubbers" (conjuring the image of sleepy and oafish men lolling about doing nothing), North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony

tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.

Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.

Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool.

Mas o "Cadelão" não é negro? O negro boçal? Não diria "violada". É uma palavra que. Entende? Não usaria a palavra "violada"! maria

The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it

Within families, you're stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.

We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a state that's known for pineapples and cane toads, old bad attitudes and the brain-addling heat that comes from the Tropic of Capricorn sitting right across our middle. We're that kind of state - hot and steamy, unlovely and unloved, far too much fodder here for metaphors about festering and putrefaction.