Rita Mae Brown Quotes

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Jews went into crime because they were unfit for hard labor.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

Society is better off without certain people.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.