Stereotype Quotes - Page 12

• The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

  David Levithan

  Real, Character, Humanity

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women in construction sites and everything else, then we're making progress. Discrimination is deeply embedded in our community, but we do have the tools to combat it.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Attitude, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

  Frank Pittman

  Taken, Exercise, Men

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• We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Boards, Answers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And we have made progress. We did pass the anti-discrimination law, Title 7, Title 9, equality in the workplace, equality in education and in sports and in all these other areas. But enforcement is very hard. Changing stereotypes is very hard.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Sports, Feminist, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's another great thing about Think Like a Man picture. The cast is predominantly African-American, but color is never really an issue in the film. It's rarely brought up since, at the end of the day, these guys are going through universal relationship issues that anybody can relate to. So, while the characters like "The non-committer," "The Player," and "The Dreamer" might be recognizable as common stereotypes, color isn't involved.

  Michael Ealy

  Character, Player, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done... I mean you have to work with the stereotype. The stereotype gets you paid, it gets you in the business. If they're looking for a white housewife, they're going to go for Joan Cusack.

  Terry Crews

  Mean, White, Looks

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.

  Kwame Dawes

  Brother, Uncles, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing about, to expose them, to label them, to stereotype them, but instead to make them come alive for the reader with all their strengths and their flaws intact.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.

  Rakim

  Football, Couple, Team

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that 'boys don't cry' and it's embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, 'hysterical', or 'hormonal', is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.

  Laura Bates

  Suicide, Fighting, Men

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• Every character when born is a stereotype.

  Michael Patrick King

  Character, Born

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.

  Orlan

  Football, Kings, Warrior

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Plastic, Ambiguous

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush.

  Philip Morrison

  New York, Real, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how it goes. I think that we lucked out in that all of the women who started writing at Feministing.com were really funny, and I don't think that's something people are used to seeing or hearing when they read feminism. You know, you think feminism and you kind of think academic, women's studies, dry, humorless; there are all of these stereotypes that go along with what feminist thought is and what feminist writing is.

  Jessica Valenti

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.

  Daniel Beaty

  Brother, Father, Journey

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype. And it's a natural inclination in a world where it's so complex and so occasionally valueless, morally bankrupt, and chaotic that we want to reach back to something in our past.

  Gary Ross

  Past, Trying, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

  Octavia Spencer

  Integrity, Black, Negative

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

  Morgan Parker

  Strong, Black, Needs

  "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 ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

  Taryn Manning

  Sophisticated, Educated, Wells

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• There's competitiveness in everything. In any job, I'm sure. I think there's also this stereotype that women together are catty and competitive, which is just - nobody ever talks about men being catty or competitive. I don't think that's fair.

  Elle Fanning

  Men, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.mtv.com

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