Margaret Cho: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

School , Thinking , Fight

“We are more aware and politicized than ever before. There is very little ambiguity as to which side you are on.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

“Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, MENTAL COLONIZATION

“[on having a gay child] And the Three Wise Drag Queens would come, bearing gifts of 1000-thread-count sheets, hair products by Frédéric Fekkai, and a copy of the Immaculate Collection.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

“We are no longer afraid to voice our opinions, to use our power, to pool our resources, to allow our differences to unite us instead of keeping us apart.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

“I'm very inappropriate, which makes me a problem dinner guest, because at some point during the evening someone inevitably says, "OK, heh heh heh, OK, too much information! Heh heh heh. Don't go there!" I live there. I bought a house there.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Problem , Housing

“I am fighting when I'm sleeping. In my dreams, I must slay the dragon of European heterosexual male society, then I wake up in the morning and be an activist.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Dreams , Sleep , Fight

“[An article about Cho] started out, "Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho…" What is "zaftig?" Isn't that German for "big fat pig?" I guess I was lucky- "zaftig" is kind of a nice word. It could have been, "Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD

“Having to remind others of your American status, fear of being connected to the enemy because of ancestral ties, the threat so prevalent that it makes you put not one but two giant flags outside is not right.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Fear

“Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

“If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, "Are you a unicorn?"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Guy

“These new ways of looking at ourselves politically redefine what it means to be American. It took our until now, very passive identity and turned us all into revolutionaries.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Way

“What is needed now is action, not hopelessness”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

“I feel 100% responsible, even though there's nothing I could do to prevent it. What good is my guilt if it's not felt by those supposedly in charge?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, NATIONALISM

Feeling

“I stamp my feet and claim ignorance like a child, because its the color of my skin that says I'm supposed to know. I become the "one who refuses to see the self."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, PIGEONHOLING PEOPLE

Color

“Then there are the laws against homosexuality. Then there is the Asian exclusion act. Then there the internment of Japanese Americans. I'm not even going to talk about Guantanamo. And then there is the first American hate crime: taking this land from the Native Americans. We can keep it up forever. Hate Crime Trivial Pursuit. There are more than enough hate crimes to play a decent round.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Hate , Law

“The way some of these politicians talk about homosexuality is very insulting. They treat it like it's a disease, like being gay is contagious. Being gay is not contagious. And if you think that it is, YOU'RE GAY.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

Disease , Way , Thinking

“We don't have the luxury of our own privatized civil rights movements because the crimes - the ignorance, the rage, the hate against the who/what/why of some of us, is a much much larger foe. Together we are more than the sum of our parts. In union, in communion, in joining hands, we conquer all, because we have love on our side.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Love , Hate , Rage , Parting

“There was never a lack of reasons to hate myself, to hate my body.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF

Hate

“I could care less where my breasts are as long as they are on my body, … and I'm sorry I just don't care that much about gravity…. My lawless, braless ways are rather outlaw.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF

Way