Letitia Wright Quotes

The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize.

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question. 'Jewish' is a category of civilization, culture, and intellect, and 'woman' is a category of anatomy and physiology.

Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

People don't really think other people are the same.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

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.

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.