Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I love breaking stereotypes.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.