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Quotes About Taboo

If dirty words frighten you," said Giovanni, "I really do not know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.
~ James Baldwin
I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can even get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.
~ James Baldwin
you would think they would be happy fornicators like normal persons. But they are not, they have so many cobwebs in their heads that somehow fornication is not our Most Heavenly Pleasure, but some kind of secret, religious evil. Weird.
~ James Clavell
People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
~ Sue Johanson
I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
~ Tucker Carlson
After having the sex change, it was about getting married and fitting in and blending into society, so to speak. When I had jobs, people would say, 'Don't talk about that.' It really made people uncomfortable.
~ Amanda Lepore
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
~ John Ratzenberger
My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
~ M.I.A.
People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.
~ Petra Collins
I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.
~ Bo Burnham
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
~ Salman Rushdie
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
~ Salvador Dali
I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.
~ Jenny Zhang
One way or another, all humans are superstitious.
~ Abhijit Naskar
There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.
~ Nina Dobrev
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
~ Frederick Lenz
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
~ Sigmund Freud
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
~ Orson Welles
Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
~ Aziz Ansari
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
~ Nina Simone
I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.
~ Eddie Griffin
Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That's crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.
~ Anthony Jeselnik