Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.