Common Quotes

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Don't classify me, read me.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.