Stereotype Quotes - page 5

So many black kids are put in that position, so I wanted to show that there is no one way to talk black. There is a stereotype that if you sound ghetto, and you use a lot of slang, that makes you black. I wanted to show this girl who exists in these two different worlds. Which Starr is the real Starr? There are so many adults who identify with that, too. I went through it myself when I was in college... (Angie Thomas)
First of all, let's dispense with this absurd stereotype that the French are rude. The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. View quote
Dave Barry
Chico_Fernández, Roberto and myself, the three of us palled around. We went out to eat, we went to the movies together, we laughed and we joked. Oh yeah, he was funny. The three of us, we just laughed all the time. See, we joked amongst ourselves. Some people think because you're colored, they've got the stereotype that we're like those guys in the old days – always cracking jokes. I'm not a joke cracker. Clemente wasn't either, but we could say things now and then that were funny and we could ad lib things. View quote
Roberto Clemente