Sharon Needles Quotes

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

The Negro is going to be relegated to the menial jobs and will not get his promotions because the competition is too tough.

Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

I am a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. I make that statement proudly in the full knowledge that, as a Black person and as a female person, I do not have a chance of actually gaining that office in this election year.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.