Black Stereotype Sayings

#1. Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

John Denham

#2. Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

Mickalene Thomas

#3. As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.

Twiggy

#4. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Criss Jami

#5. I am concerned that in their efforts to evade the Sapphire stereotype, black women may be discouraged from demanding equal consideration of their specific political needs within black political discourses.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#6. I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.

Mike Trout

#7. Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

Brigid Lowry

#8. Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

Anthony Jeselnik

#9. The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

Claire Forlani

#10. Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation.
Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow!

John Flanagan

#11. Let's just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made me really miss my wife.

Taye Diggs

#12. The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Henry Louis Gates

#13. The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#14. September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Bernard Williams

#15. I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

Wesley Snipes

#16. I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

#17. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.

Sanober Khan