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Quotes About Stereotype

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.
~ Sherman Alexie
James tells the crowd that the river is just a few yards from where we stand is all we ever need to believe in. One white woman asks how old James is and I tell her he's seven and she tells me that he's so smart for an Indian boy. James hears this and tells the white woman that she's pretty smart for an old white woman.
~ Sherman Alexie
They call me an apple because they think I'm red on the outside and white on the inside.
~ Sherman Alexie
Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.
~ Sherman Alexie
She was so white his reservation eyes suffered.
~ Sherman Alexie
Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't really fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.
~ Sherman Alexie
Indians, indians, indians." She said it without capitalization. She called me "indian, indian, indian." And I said, Yes, I am. I am Indian. Indian, I am.
~ Sherman Alexie
Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So who was she? (Vane) Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang) Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She thinks I'm a drug dealer. (Chris) 'The most "illegal" thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.' (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In case you haven't noticed, there's not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.
~ Paris Hilton
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
~ Rahul Dravid
I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.
~ Taryn Manning
Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.
~ Tibor Fischer
I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.
~ John Gilstrap
NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamednot by its residentsAfrica. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
~ John Kilian Houston Brunner
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
~ John Leguizamo
Mrs. Elliot Likes Boys
~ John Locke
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
~ John Major