Margaret Cho quotes - page 6

I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, "*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?" (Margaret Cho)
The majority should not be allowed to rule simply because its the majority. The majority is responsible for slavery, segregation, lynching, denying women and minorities the vote, Japanese internment and a million other injustices and inhumanities. View quote
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I vowed to myself if I ever go to one of these award shows I'm gonna wear some kind of a bird. So I went to the Grammys last years I had a dress made out of peacock feathers. And I didn't win a Grammy, was named worst dressed. And that's impressive, because if you win a Grammy you had to just beat out what, three, four people? But if you're worst dressed you beat fifteen thousand people! I beat Mary J. Blige! I beat Lil' Kim! View quote
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Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard? View quote
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[on reacting to racism] I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. "I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!" View quote
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We are supposed to be ruled by ourselves, but I have yet to see any evidence of it in our lifetime. View quote
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Its unacceptable to me, both as an American and as a human being. View quote
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I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy. View quote
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, "Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?" And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? View quote
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If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground? View quote
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I love America. I'm not moving. It's cool. I just don't like seeing dead people. (Margaret Cho)
Feminism is nonnegotiable. View quote
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The people I choose to admire are not necessarily popular, not necessarily terribly well known, but they each have something to offer me, a lesson, a cautionary tale, an idea, an inspiration. View quote
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This old fellow came up to me and asked, "Excuse me, are you Japanese?" No, I'm Korean. "Oh, really, that's very interesting, because I was looking at you and I knew you were not Filipino. I have many Filipino friends and you do not look like them because you're very HUSKY!!" Is that supposed to be some kind of a compliment? "Oh, no, it's not bad, you're very strong, very HUSKY!" View quote
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Prejudice and bigotry rot me from within, and the strains of these viruses are hearty and hard to kill. View quote
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Of course America is responsible for the total body count. We started it, we own it, we sow, we reap, but we are also disconnected from the responsibility of our won dirty acts of war. View quote
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I add to the culture of invisibility becoming complicit with it. View quote
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Body dysmorphia has got to go. Its similar to a disease called "crazy eyes" not the way others look at you, but the way you see yourself. The insanity which we use as our vision.... View quote
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Ultimately a government cannot defeat its people, no matter how much power they assume or how corrupt they are. For us, there is only opportunity. View quote
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The terrible thing about invisibility is the lengths we will go to be seen. View quote
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Stop the fantasy we need to be defending freedom, because we don't have freedom in our own country yet. (Margaret Cho)
With salons all over the West serving up specialties like "Barely Legal", removing all hair from the area to replicate the genitalia of an underage girl, as statutory rape seems all the rage. View quote
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Because even though there is all this talk about multiculturalism in television and the movie industries, I have yet to see any evidence of it. View quote
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Playing it safe is not productive for anyone, because safety requires gays and lesbians to be invisible, and the inhumanity engendered by making people invisible is anything but safe, rather, it puts us all in danger. When we are banned from the places we should be welcomed, where we should not only be allowed but encouraged to speak, where should we go then? View quote
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I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific. View quote
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