Michael K. Williams Quotes

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

People don't really think other people are the same.

I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I've learned through YouTube, if it's not race, it will be sexism, if it's not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.