J Mascis Quotes

I hate labels.

I became stereotyped.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

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

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

The world is still very bigoted.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.