Stereotype Quotes

• We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, Hate, Our Words

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, People, Sensual

  7 Copy quote

• The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Stories, Brilliant, Problem

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Mar 03, 2013

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Gay, People

  "Seriously... I’m Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

  168 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

  Iggy Azalea

  Being Yourself, Differences

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  Ed Koch

  Fall, World, Groups

  34 Copy quote

• People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

  Carson Kressley

  People, Mind, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Judging, Prisms

  35 Copy quote

• Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

  Deb Caletti

  Lying, Easy

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

  123 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  80 Copy quote

• As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

  Kara Walker

  Doe, Littles, Information

  "CULTURE ZOHN: Two Artists Transform Anger Into Things of Beauty" by Patricia Zohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2008.

  495 Copy quote

  Show source

• Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

  Harold Evans

  Mean, Cliche, Attempting

  23 Copy quote

• There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Fit, Like Something

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.131, Random House

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).

  Roland Barthes

  Unique, Desire, Figures

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

  Carolina Herrera

  Mean, Age, Passionate

  "Q&A With Designer Carolina Herrera". Interview with Gwen Marder, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2005.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Humanity, Faces

  14 Copy quote

• To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

  Chester Bowles

  Art, Communication, Ideas

  Chester Bowles (1962). “The Conscience of a Liberal”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

  Chinua Achebe

  Ideas, Diversity, Problem

  23 Copy quote

• Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Roots

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

  Robert E Lane

  Reality, Men, Two

  10 Copy quote

• It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Jokes

  Song: One, Album: Happy Thoughts, 2011

  17 Copy quote

  Show source