Unjustified Stereotyping Quotes

This self imposed guilt about racial and ethnic profiling is idiocy.

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

Most girls spend most of their time at school. If real change comes from hearing our voices, it has to start in school, but school is a place where black girls tend to experience microaggressions. Microaggressions are not always obvious, ugly, or terrible things, but they make you feel as though your voice does not matter.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

My experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that I needed.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don't really know me.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.