Carmen Carrera Quotes

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.