Quotes About Stereotyping

It was hard knowing that you walk into a store sometimes, and you're wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie and some baggy jeans, or your skin is a little darker, and the clerk is just staring at you a little bit harder. The cops treat you a little differently.

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist of some shape or form.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

The Democrats always scream 'racism' at a Republican contender in any field across the country.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Men huddle in a corner and talk about me, rather than walking up to me and chatting me up.

Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

Our industry is quick to judge you and then label you with a tag. I don't want that to happen.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.

My little brother's 5-9 and doesn't play basketball at all, but if he was 7-foot and one of the most talented people in the world, then I would assume he would be Jarrett Allen.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.