I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
The soft bigotry of low expectations
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.
I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.
I've been told to 'man up' after talking about depression on Twitter. Man up means 'be strong because that's what a man is.' And they don't just mean physical strength, they mean emotional strength. What, because men get into fights or go to wars to fight? It should be 'woman up.'
'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.
When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.
Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
Minority students became the victims of low expectations.
The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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.
