Stereotype Quotes - Page 17

• This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  African American, Battle, Accomplished

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

  Morgan Parker

  Block, Creating, Noise

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.

  Karla Souza

  Thinking, Way, Scripts

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a girl." My only issue is, when that stereotype and stigma already exists, sometimes it's perpetuated by people who may not really play guitar. You somehow need to transcend that division of gender.

  Thao Nguyen

  Girl, People, Musician

  "Thao Nguyen And The Get Down Stay Down". Interview with Matthew Borlik and Jen Girdish, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2009.

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• Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, Hate, Smart

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Entrepreneur, Loner

  Source: www.inc.com

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• Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

  Jack Kirby

  Real, Suits, Bigs

  John Morrow, Jack Kirby (2004). “Collected Jack Kirby Collector”, p.25, TwoMorrows Publishing

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• Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

  Jen Kirkman

  Teacher, Yoga, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, Latin, America

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.

  Judith Rich Harris

  Running, Names, Long

  Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• The angry lesbian stereotype is true - Im one of them - but underneath that there is fun and frolic and we need to show that a little bit more now.

  Jill Bennett

  Fun, Needs, Littles

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• Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

  John McLaughlin

  Struggle, Fighting, Rights

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• Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that Indians are less civilized than us, they're less able to exercise self-governing functions. Until we get to the roots of those problems, we're not going to change legislation. We're not going to change the hearts and minds of the Supreme Court.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Heart, Exercise, Historical

  "Bill Moyers: It's a Non-Stop Land Grab From the American Indians". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. December 26, 2014.

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• I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

  Wesley Snipes

  Drug, Black, Males

  Source: collider.com

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• Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being created to study poverty. But, at the same time, the media has a terribly hard time with this issue; it's very hard to convince editors and publishers to devote resources to complex investigations of the lives of America's poor. And, as a result, too often poverty is portrayed in stereotypes, in sound bites, in a few pat images rather than in its full Technicolor complexity and diversity.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Book, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

  Noel Tichy

  Cat, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Trying, Benefits

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self, Purity, Interest

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those Chinese people, they can fly!" "You know about the Puerto Ricans? They're made of candy!"

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Nice, Race

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• My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

  Pearl Tan

  Frustrated, Way, My Family

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

  Jess Bowen

  Giving Up, Believe, Practice

  Source: entertwine.net

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• I've never liked to play stereotypes.

  Michael Welch

  Play

  "Jacked In". GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. July 30, 2004.

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• Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hero, Men, People

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.

  Richard Blanco

  Mean, Responsibility, Gay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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