Alice McDermott Quotes

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

I became stereotyped.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

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 do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

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

There are people who are blond and blue-eyes who are walking through airports that are terrorists. There are people who look exactly like me who are terrorists.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

I was going to go to a Gathering of the Juggalos but decided that wouldn't work. They would know I was there to make fun of them. It would be like me going to a Trump rally.

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.