Quotes from Margaret Cho

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Comedy is a noble art.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.

I love animals.

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline. And I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. "You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink."

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.