Ethnic Stereotypes Quotes

I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Barack Obama

Grandmother, Men, White

A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Al D'Amato

Responsibility, Italian, Special

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Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Tommy Lee Jones

Stupid, Thinking, Criminals

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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

Terry Eagleton

Odds, Syntax, Literature

"A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

Daniel Sunjata

Thinking, Light, Color

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Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

Anna Quindlen

Individuality, Pearls, Sometimes

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