Sarah Cooper Quotes

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

I resent anyone coming in and claiming to be a minority as I am.

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

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.

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

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

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!

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

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

It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.