Quotes About Stereotyping

When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men ; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

No other group in America has used black people as metaphors as extensively as white women involved in the women's movement.

At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute—untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.

All too often in our society, it is assumed that one can know all there is to know about black people by merely hearing the life story and opinions of one black person.

You could be Jesus in drag, but if you're brown, they're sure you're selling.

Scarcely a year after Hitler had been handed power, something of what he had always claimed about the Jews had actually come to pass. He said they were different. And they had become different. He had accused them of being furtive and sneaky. And they had become furtive and sneaky. Covering up. Lying low. Watching the door. Hiding away. Survival rats. Constantly nervous, trying to blend in, avoiding people's

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.

You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.

You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Siempre me pareció una tontería desear a una mujer que conversara apenar mejor que una oveja.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.

You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.