Stereotype Quotes

• We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, Hate, Our Words

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

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• The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Stories, Brilliant, Problem

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Mar 03, 2013

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• The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Gay, People

  "Seriously... I’m Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

  Iggy Azalea

  Being Yourself, Differences

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015

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• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  Ed Koch

  Fall, World, Groups

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Judging, Prisms

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• People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

  Carson Kressley

  People, Mind, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Fit, Like Something

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.131, Random House

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• Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

  Harold Evans

  Mean, Cliche, Attempting

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Humanity, Faces

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• The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

  Kara Walker

  Doe, Littles, Information

  "CULTURE ZOHN: Two Artists Transform Anger Into Things of Beauty" by Patricia Zohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2008.

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• The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

  Chinua Achebe

  Ideas, Diversity, Problem

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• Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Roots

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Simple, Race, Class

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Listening, Opinion, Ought

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.50, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.

  Mark Cuban

  Tattoo, Kids, Night

  "Did Dallas Mavericks Owner Drop The Ball On Sterling Controversy?". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

  Amy Adams

  Hair, Personality, Blonde

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• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Fads, Management

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Occupation, May

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• The moment there is imagination there is myth

  Camille Paglia

  Imagination, Moments, Stunning

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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