Nish Kumar Quotes

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

We live in a world that does not recognize virtually anyone outside of the white male or the beautiful white woman who has to be an object of desire and affection.

I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.