“Whenever you hear the words chink, nigger, beaner, paki, sissy, bull dyke, faggot, cunt, bitch, ho, jap…because through no fault of your own, you happen to be you, and apparently to the person saying it something is wrong with that.”

—  Margaret Cho

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

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