Andy Warhol Quotes

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Philosophers are men hired by the well-to-do to prove that everything is all right.

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.

I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

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.

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.