Ethnic Stereotypes Quotes

#1. Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Tommy Lee Jones

#2. Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

Anna Quindlen

#3. As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Al D'Amato

#4. I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

Albert Brooks

#5. Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

Rajneesh

#6. When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

Hari Kondabolu

#7. Give something that wasn't expected.

John Madden

#8. I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

Aubrey O'Day

#9. My doom is, I love thee still.
Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

Forest Whitaker