Dwight Howard Quotes

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

Far from being a loathsome aberration that ought to be purged from our behavior, it turns out that stereotypes are essential life tools, are accurate much more often than not.

Just because we have exotic last names or darker faces, our politics are assumed to be radical. But that is simply not the case.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

But alas, I'd have to find a way to be opinionated without being too opinionated, authoritative without being a bitch about it, smart without being elitist, fair without being a pushover. If the boyfriends of my youth found me too authoritative when I should have been cheering on the sidelines as they kicked and tossed and smacked balls toward the vanguard, the male colleagues of my adulthood kept reminding me of my lack of authority as they unconsciously displayed theirs. I was always failing someone's standards of legitimacy, as a girlfriend, as a producer of opinions. It was an eternal no-win.

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

If I started smiling all the time, people would say, 'DeMarcus must not care anymore.'

When I turned 30, the first question I got was, 'How much longer do you want to play?' And I don't see why that can't be when you turn 40. I really don't.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we're not real people that feel real things.

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.

Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less - not less friendly - but I guess I'm drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I'm a little more brooding.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

If I play bad, then it's not like I don't care.

I tend to make snap judgements about people.