“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.” IfsWorldWayLooksPersonsLongSelfHardCertainSupportSelf EsteemThis WorldColorRevolutionSelf LoveIntegrityGayMessagesSizeEsteemMinoritiesWorthlessFind MeTransgenderBisexualOverdue Author:Margaret Cho
“It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.” FeelsAmericaBlackGroupsColorRacismStressMinoritiesExhaustingBadgesRespiteMinority Groups Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.” ThinkingShouldStoriesFictionCrazyColorDivorceCriminalsSuspenseGenreMinoritiesCopSpyGhettoPalette Author:Jess Walter
“In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.” PeopleIfsWantColorProgramCourtProofSupremeMinoritiesContractsSupreme CourtUnconstitutional Author:Karen DeCrow
“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.” IfsWayLittlesPersonsIdentityColorBlowDeeperWho I AmMinoritiesPermissionShields Author:Margaret Cho
“It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.” PeopleYearsHandsHateWhiteImpossibleCenturyCrimeColorBehaviorMajorityDecadesGuiltyMinoritiesJustifiedHate CrimeRetributionPayback Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.” PeopleThinkingFirstsGreaterColorSkinsBasesMinoritiesDay To Day Author:Jordan Peele