Quotes about stereotype

Ogwo David Emenike -

In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it.

Hrishikesh Agnihotri -

God does not stereotype. Each of us is made magnificently unique.

Criss Jami - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.

Joss Ware - Embrace the Night Eternal

But then it was over too quickly and they pulled away. She knew they couldn't stand there and kiss like a couple on the run in a thriller.

Michael Grant - Lies

The intruders spoke no words as they rushed in. Five boys carrying baseball bats and tire irons. They wore an assortment of Halloween masks and stocking masks.But Derek knew who they were.“No! No!” he cried.All five boys wore bulky shooter’s earmuffs. They couldn’t hear him. But more importantly, they couldn’t hear Jill.One of the boys stayed in the doorway. He was in charge. A runty kid named Hank. The stocking pulled down over his face smashed his features into Play-Doh, but it could only be H

Sunday Adelaja -

Get rid of old stereotype “I am a victim

Sunday Adelaja -

Employment stereotypes you

Hazel Rochman -

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you’ve reached beyond stereotype.

Patricia J. Williams - The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths.I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's children are th

Clifford Cohen -

If you want to impress someone, simply make up a vocation and preface it with the words “molecular” or “theoretical” (as in “molecular biologist” or “theoretical physicist”). After you do this no one will question the veracity of anything you say—whether it is related to your putative vocation or not.

Kelley Armstrong - Omens

Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

Sarah Thornton - Seven Days in the Art World

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

Jeffrey Archer - A Quiver Full of Arrows

Sir Hamish Graham has many of the qualities & most of the failings that result from being born to a middle-class Scottish family. He was well educated, hard working & honest, while at the same time being narrow-minded, uncompromising & proud.

Thomas J. Scheff -

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

Anthony Liccione -

If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

Nicholas Kristof -

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

Elyn R. Saks -

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Ivan E. Coyote -

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

Susan Marg - Hollywood or Bust

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk

What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forced human toil,—now, then, and before the war. They are not happy, these black men whom we meet throughout this region. There is little of the joyous abandon and playfulness which we are wont to associate with the plantation Negro.

Jandy Nelson - The Sky Is Everywhere

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

Amin Maalouf -

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate"

Julian Seifter -

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.

Rebecca McNutt -

Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway.

Stewart Stafford -

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Michael Grant - Hunger

Go, Breeze,” someone yelled.But another voice yelled, “Quit showing off, stupid mutant.”Brianna stopped dead. Her dress settled back into place. “Who said that?”Zil. The same jerk who had picked on Jack over the phones.“Me,” Zil said, stepping forward. “And don’t bother trying to look tough. I’m not scared of you, freak.”“You should be,” Brianna hissed.Suddenly there was Dekka, up off her chair, hand extended between Brianna and Zil. “No,” she said in her deep voice. “None of that.”Quinn joined

Yanko Tsvetkov -

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Toni Morrison - Love

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

A.D. Posey -

Truth is not a stereotype.