Amber Liu Quotes

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

It's mean to make fun of anybody for the way they look.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

I've been bullied because of the way I've looked growing up.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

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.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.