Margaret Cho: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't give too much information, if I don't go there, it's like I was never there in the first place. I noticed this most right after September 11, when there were no gays or lesbians invited to give their opinion about what was going on. There were no women invited to give their opinion. There were hardly any people of color invited, and if they were, they were Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans talking about the violence that they'd experienced because they shared the same skin color as the terrorists, which is heinous and dumb!”

Margaret Cho

That's like arresting Emmanuel Lewis because Gary Coleman punched that woman!
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Women , People , Color , Silence

“Of course, we're there because of weapons of mass destruction that do not exist.”

Margaret Cho

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

“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?”

Margaret Cho

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

Thinking

“If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?”

Margaret Cho

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

Thinking

“So I was on the ship, with 800 lesbians. We can't get off. So much drama. "Were you looking at her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her? WELL, WERE YOU?!" We all got on the same cycle.”

Margaret Cho

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

“Might does not equal right…fortunately, the majority holds power by a very small margin. There are certain things the majority has no right to mess with, certain things that are definitely worth fighting for--worth defending and worth offending.”

Margaret Cho

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

Fight

“The only way to push forward instead of wasting away in the purgatorial procrastination of worry is to just not care what the outcomes. I need to just start running downhill with my eyes shut. There are no guarantees that I will be able to survive this world, where the air is rare for minorities like myself. But that suits me just fine. I'm a risk taker that way.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, SPEAKING UP

World , Way

“I love America. I'm not moving. It's cool. I just don't like seeing dead people.”

Margaret Cho

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

Love , People , Dead

“Feminism is nonnegotiable.”

Margaret Cho

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

“No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder…is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

Time

“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.”

Margaret Cho

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

People , Idea

“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!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD

Strong

“My association is so painfully close that avoidance is the only way I know to retain my identity. It's ridiculous and embarrassing. I hate feeling this way, because it forces me to see how deeply racism has affected me.”

Margaret Cho

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

Hate , Way , Feeling

“Prejudice and bigotry rot me from within, and the strains of these viruses are hearty and hard to kill.”

Margaret Cho

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

“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.”

Margaret Cho

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

War

“My parents have lived in the United States since 1964 and they have never voted. They don't feel they have a right to. They don't feel this is their country. Even though they are citizens, they pay taxes, they watch the news and keep up with current events, they still don't feel comfortable enough with their American life to fully participate in it…Any attempt to argue is thwarted by dismissal…I guess he doesn't want to explain, because how can you explain something as intangible as invisibility?”

Margaret Cho

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

Life , Feeling , Parent , Country

“I add to the culture of invisibility becoming complicit with it.”

Margaret Cho

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

“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….”

Margaret Cho

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

Disease , Way

“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.”

Margaret Cho

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

People

“The terrible thing about invisibility is the lengths we will go to be seen.”

Margaret Cho

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