Quotes About Stereotyping

People were classified, and often judged, by their denomination. And they were certainly condemned if they didn't claim one.

I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word nigger leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

Always being jealous of pretty girls then realising they're fake, slutty, whores.

It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.

Weather you judge people or not they will always judge you.

Sometimes people try to assume us rather than understand us. They try and sum us up in three simple words. Society really needs to sort itself out

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.

And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out?

everyone else got lumped into the WAME category like we were all one big, homogenous mass and not worthy of distinct categorization.

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

He looked at me like I was stupid. Why do people always look at me like that?

women hated her, and the men saw her as the girl they could never get. Dale

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

from Indo-China— put in some wild yeast from the air, ferment it and voilà! you've now got Vodka for the Volga, beer for the Brits, Bourbon for Balboa's kids, Joy-juice for the Kickapoos. Pour this into an Inner City and create your Designated Criminal Class purely to blame for everything, or rub it on the Reservations and

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.