Stereotype Quotes

“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
― Ivan Coyote

“When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“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.”
― Toni Morrison, Love

“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.”
― Elyn R. Saks

“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.”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

“She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“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". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed."

– Amin Maalouf "On Identity”
― Amin Maalouf

“He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“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.”
― Joss Ware, Embrace the Night Eternal

“When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.”
― Rinker Buck, Flight of Passage: A Memoir

“Why does everyone always claim women are illogical when men are a hundred times more so? First they want something, then they don't, then they make irrational decisions based on secrets they won’t explain and no one is supposed to question them because a man’s word is final.”
― Lisa Kleypas , Scandal in Spring

“In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original.
So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.”
― Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

“If you want to uplift and change your community.
If you want to uplift and change your hood, ghetto or township.
Change their stereotype.
Our society is held back , not to progress or developing , because of type of stereotypes we have within our community. If we break those stereotypes. We would find our freedom, happiness , progress and success.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Make assumption if you must, but make not the mistake of assuming that your assumption is always right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“People are choosing to use gender wars to score points. Joking or not, what they are committing Is a hate crime or hate speech. Most of our Issues and problems are not resolved in life because they were given or tagged to a specific gender. A blame game took place. Meanwhile, they are human errors, not men or women. If something Is good or bad, we choose which gender to allocate It to. By doing so, we are creating a stereotype. We are deflating from the real Issue by Isolating ourselves so that we don’t feel responsibility and accountability to act On the problem we are part of.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley”
― Seo-Young Chu, Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

“If you want to uplift and change your community.
If you want to uplift and change your hood, projects , ghetto or township.
Change the stereotype believes.
Our society is held back , not to progress or develop , because of the type of stereotypes we have within our community. If we break those stereotypes. We would find our freedom, happiness , progress and success.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“did ya ever cry
Black man, did ya ever cry
til you knocked all over?

- Haiku”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“When we confront a stranger, we need to substitute an idea, a stereotype, for direct experience. And that stereotype is wrong all too often.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers

“1. Thou shalt respect Scotland's history but not become a pastiche.
Tradition is a dish best served fresh, so instead of perpetuating tired stereotypes of Scotland, the coorie movement moves forward our oldest rituals.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Life might assign you some role but it will never assign you your destiny, for life will always try to fit you into a box of convenience while destiny realizes that there is no such thing as a box of convenience.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Because society says A plus B equals C, then we're nothing? Sometimes X divided by 4.3 equals fuck all, Tate.”
― Stylo Fantome, Separation

“Scott's description of the stag in The Lady of the Lake, is much more challenging than the image of Landseer's Monarch of the Glen. He refers to the 'antlered monarch of the waste', a far more appropriate creature of the upper reaches of Glen Artney where Canto I of The Lady of the Lake begins. The problem is that Scott and Landseer have become too closely associated; they have become a conjoined stereotype of the Highlands from which neither can escape. That is not such a problem for Landseer; indeed, without his association with Scott he would be much less known today. But it is a problem for Scott and the Highlands, because Landseer's image of The Monarch of the Glen has been visually conflated with Scott's literary work in the minds of so many.”
― Murdo MacDonald, Literary Tourism, the Trossachs and Walter Scott

“Assumption is obstacle to communication, stereotypes are obstacle to awareness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Stereotypes are obstacle to awareness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper