Quotes About Stereotyping

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

There was, for starters, the tendency of everyone who actually played the game to generalize wildly from his own experience. People always thought their own experience was typical when it wasn't.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.

You could see in an instant that she had been the local good-time girl since about 1931. She had "Ready for Sex" written all over her face, but "Better Bring a Paper Bag" written all over her body.

don't know whether the people in these towns pronounce them that way because they are backward, undereducated shitkickers who don't know any better or whether they know better but don't care that everybody thinks they are backward undereducated shitkickers.

And I know that there are cops who think of themselves as good cops but, even if unconsciously, see a black man in a T-shirt and jeans as more threatening than a white man dressed the same way.

Kafir is not a neutral word. Instead, it defines a subhuman, so it is bigoted and biased.

Trump said, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians?

The man is so narrow-minded his ears rub together.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

How many black boys Jamil's age would one day end up staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun because of a quick assumption, or fear?

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, "Oh, he has autism. That's the problem"—and then he didn't treat the GI problem.

It's telling that TV, film, and news producers tend not to be satisfied with merely showing trans women wearing feminine clothes and makeup. Rather, it is their intent to capture trans women in the act of putting on lipstick, dresses, and high heels, thereby giving the audience the impression that the trans woman's femaleness is an artificial mask or costume.

They're calling being black a look? How progressive of them.

Why do women have to face comments like, 'You are wearing short clothes; you are alluring and inviting men?'

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

They offer me item numbers, Bhabhi roles and all that. When they offer me the role of the main lead, that particular film ends up not being made. I don't know what they want.