Margaret Cho: Trending quotes (page 6)

“As you read their names, imagine who they loved, who loved them, and those those left behind cope now without them. They're never coming home. Never.”

Margaret Cho

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

Love , Home , Imagination , Reading

“I actually adore that kind of hate mail, because if all you have to fight me with is prejudice then I have already won the battle, and eventually I'm gonna win this war. I wrote about hate mail on my website, and posted all that I had received, along with the names and e-mail addresses of the guilty…(this) actually prompted an incredible number of the haters to recant and apologize.”

Margaret Cho

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

Hate , War , Fight

“We are a nation divided which is obvious. The problem is, the division is keeping this monarchy in place.”

Margaret Cho

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

Problem

“When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS

Family , Color , Way , Dance

“The Pope was so sick he couldn't even come to the window, he was so sick all he could manage is a "BLAAARGH (vomiting)". But even that "blargh" was anti-gay.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

“All of them who need to tell ladies to stop talking about sports and stay on the sidelines, because we are baby-making machines.”

Margaret Cho

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

Sport , Baby

“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

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Guy

“Although it might be that we can't expect change overnight, there was really a rapid shift in the way we view politics.”

Margaret Cho

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

Way , Change

“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.”

Margaret Cho

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

Women

“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!”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

People , Bird

“It was not our right to have become the world's bully and start this war in the first place.”

Margaret Cho

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

War , World

“Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?”

Margaret Cho

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

Men

“I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

“[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!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Personality

“We are supposed to be ruled by ourselves, but I have yet to see any evidence of it in our lifetime.”

Margaret Cho

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

“This is a very strange time we're living in, and I would feel a little bit better if George W. Bush could say the word "nuclear" correctly. You would have thought somebody would have said something by now. At the very least, Condi would have got up in his face, "Foo', it's NU-CLE-AR! Imma have'ta write it down fo'ya!…I'm makin' flash cards for the President. This is…[shaking her head] mm-mmmm."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Feeling , Time

“I get nervous when people say to me, "I just can't tell any of you Asians apart!" Um, why do you have to tell us apart? Are we gonna be separated for some reason? I can't tell us apart! I was not born with a chip in my neck that would automatically identify every Asiatic person that I would come across. "beebeebeebeebeep Filipino."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

People , Personality

“Its unacceptable to me, both as an American and as a human being.”

Margaret Cho

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

“I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy.”

Margaret Cho

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

“Haven't we heard enough from these ancient white guys? There is this silent agreement that everyone everywhere has made regarding old white men. They are the bottom line, the last word, no matter what. The saying "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to."”

Margaret Cho

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

Women , Men , Guy , Singing