Quotes About Stereotyping

All the news articles focus on how I look. They certainly don't do that to men.

Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Theo McLean, fact examiner. If I were harsh, I'd say he was a nerd, but it's not cool to put someone down with labels. But man, he was a nerd. He was smart too. Straight-A smart. Except for gym.

It seems to work out that following anything you do, you are pretty much approached with versions of the last thing people saw you in.

'My Name is Khan' saw the post 9/11 scenario from a Muslim perspective. In fact all films dealing with the post 9/11 conflict - whether 'New York,' 'Kurbaan' or 'Khuda Kay Liye' only showed how Muslims were victimized.

Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely do they receive victim treatment. When black athletes are crime victims, the undertone seems to be they somehow were at fault.

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

I know what I'm doing off the court. Everybody just sees pictures or videos of me, and if it looks out of shape, they just assume that I'm fat or I'm not working.

Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?" "I graduated from Cambridge," Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?

If you look at the pictures in her social media accounts, there's always dirty laundry in the background. She's a slob. Does that sound like an astronaut to you?

Not in a wig and red lips, all slender and seductive and sultry with beautiful false green eyes and an accent and walk that made him weak at the knees. The sixteen-year-old Katarina who reported him to the Whistler police, who accused him and his friends of gang rape, was a fat-ass, pimply-faced, desperate little slut of a schoolgirl. A fangirl who, according to other students at her school, had a poster of him on the inside of her locker.

For white males, it is impossible to have tits that are too big, and for black males, you cannot get the butt big enough. At the same time, if your tits are big enough, white guys don't care how big your butt is; and if your butt's big enough, black guys don't care what's happening around front.

But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?

Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike. Most chicks do, I said. Roar of the engine and so on. Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you? It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over—a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Watch how you carry yoursel, and be mindful of what you being labeled as.

People cannot have an opinion without being labeled a 'hater!' That is complete and utter BS!

How can you label someone before you even had a chance to meet and get to know that person?

We're all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She

Hollywood's worst fault is typecasting. John Wayne, Cary Grant, everyone who's been a success - we all had the same problem. And they tell me I'm too important to play small character roles; you can't win!