36 Quotes About Stereotyping

Don't read too deeply into the things I say. You might drown.

It's shameful for a devil to be good.

So entrenched is our fictional image of Gypsies that we often brush aside real-world experiences as a mirage when they contradict the picture that we have absorbed and internalized.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Boxes are for objects, not humans.

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive.

[Walter Lippmann] applied the term “stereotype” to what he called “the pictures in our heads”—impressions that reflect subjective perceptions but stand in for objective reality. The word comes from the old typesetting process, in which a mold of a message is cast on a metal plate and replicated in the printing process again and again—mimicking the unchecked spread of ideas that we only presume to be true. Those ideas then dictate how we interpret what we see.

Stop the noise of assumption and you'll hear the music of ascension.