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

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
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San Francisco County
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Margaret Moran Cho
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Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.
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To be a feminist is to be alive.
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In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
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The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
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I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
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Things that are in bad taste are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.
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Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
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I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
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I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.
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My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.
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Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
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In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the feminine, or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, You should always look good, but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.
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Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
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As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
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I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.
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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.
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