A Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Appeals Broad Brush Color Least People

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
American - Politician
Born: June 13, 1937

'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.

Roger Allam

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Faran Tahir

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

Michele Cassou

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people dont know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Faran Tahir

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

George Carlin

I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

Howard Dean

My hair is always the same. It's wavy, so I brush it with a round brush. I'm a brush fanatic. I hoard brushes. I love getting my hair brushed. I will ask my friends to brush my hair for me.

Julia Fox

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

Anwar Robinson

In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

Jack Davenport

Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

David Brooks

I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.

Dave Camp

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

James Hal Cone

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.