Ashton Sanders Quotes

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

I definitely try to profile people at the grocery store based on what they're buying.

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

Stereotypes are so played out.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

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

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

You judge people as you meet them.

You should never assume about someone.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.