David Spade Quotes

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

Simply put, 'Redskins' is offensive to Indian people. Whether it is considered offensive by non-Indians is not the issue. It is offensive to us.

I'm not saying the N word anymore.

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.

I just think political correctness is crap.

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

Words take on many different meanings.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

I'm not politically correct.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed

I don’t watch TV because every time I do all I ever see is that fucking nigger.

I definitely don't want to appropriate... not in an 'overly PC' way though.

I've no problems with cuss words. All of us use them. Those who say they don't are lying. People can tolerate English cuss words but find the Hindi ones a bit revolting.

We live in a time of safe spaces, where micro-aggressions are monitored, where offending someone is the ultimate sin, where white people can't slip up, even once, even by accident.

Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.