Quotes About Stigma

It must be noted that once a person is said to be black by the white world, then that is usually the most important thing about him; fat or thin, intelligent or stupid, criminal or sportsman - these things pale into insignificance. Actually I've found out that a lot of whites literally cannot tell one black from another.

I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

One of the favorite speakers was a man in red who warned of sickle-cell anemia, 'a deadly organism lurking in all nigger blood.' 'If so much as one drop of nigger blood gets in your baby's cereal,' he said, 'the baby will surely die in one year.' He did not explain how he thought a negro would come to bleed in anyone's cereal.

Even now, as Special Guest Star, even here, in your own neighborhood. Two words that define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. Who you are. All you are. Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity:

The son who got As in every subject, including English, now making a living as Generic Asian Man.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Would it be said they were abandoned or taken, the way people said a girl was attacked, a woman was raped, this femaleness always at the centre, as if womanhood itself were the cause of these things? As if the girls somehow, through the natural way of things, did it to themselves.

maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.

How can we have meaningful dialogue with adolescent girls when we live in a culture that still can't talk about tampons?

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

You learn to read people by the way they act ... When people shy away from Doug, I think, Oh, they have so much to learn. You see, the disabled person has no problem interacting with them. They're the ones with the problem.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

I immediately felt better about killing him. I've never known a Trevor who wasn't a total douchebag. It's just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he'd been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

My own mental health issues had come and gone the same way, diagnosed nearly a hundred years ago as simple "hysteria," which only meant that I was a woman and really, who gave a shit what was actually wrong with me? Or

I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

I had an abortion..(so) I'm here to say, when politicians argue and shout about abortion, they're talking about me – and millions of other women around the country.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

Like many from Lazy America, she is short, and some people have called her fat, but those people haven't talked much after that.

It is with the [head louse and body louse] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by an occasional mésalliance resulting from the meetings of young people about the neck band, a body louse may go native and interbreed with a head louse. The crab louse we may neglect. He is probably of distinct generic origin and a creature that merits neither respect nor sympathy; not even terror.

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.

The 'C' students run the world.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.