Quotes About Stereotyping

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism.

Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said.

Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves?

Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.

Nathan called all shiksas Maria--the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.

He has a passport, my classmates would whisper. Quick, let's run before he judges us!

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

In my book, if you want to be treated like an old person, you have to look like one. That means no face-lift, no blond hair, and definitely no fishnet stockings.

Writers who complain most vociferously about the way their work has been pigeonholed because of a particular personal attribute—their race, say, or sexual orientation, or even their physical beauty—are always the writers whose work (the reception to whose work) has most directly benefited from this attribute.

I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.

Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.