Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
—Bill Watterson
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
—Florynce Kennedy
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
—Bella Abzug
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
—Carl T. Rowan
Contrary to today's stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color. The men in pickup trucks are just as likely to be warm and caring as the high-minded liberals are to be racists.
—Wilma Mankiller
I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need.
—Wanda Sykes
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?
—Zora Neale Hurston