If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.