Books Quote by Taiye Selasi

As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype that is…

— Xavier Woods

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,…

— Justine Larbalestier

There are similarities among certain groups of people, but it would be dangerous to assume that all stereotypes are accurate.

— ProudLesbian

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they…

— Dorian Missick

“The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“As an African American, I don’t take myself too seriously that I can’t poke fun at stereotypes that used to offend me. Despite the…

— L.V. Lewis

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

— Anna Quindlen

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a…

— Djimon Hounsou

“This unfortunate position of the African Continent and its peoples appears to be the result of misrepresentation upon which the structure of race prejudice…

— George G.M. James

“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…

— Beryl Markham

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies…

— Henry Louis Gates

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

— Maz Jobrani