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Margaret Cho Biography

Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after creating and starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.

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If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless. . . For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

Act, Gay, Integrity, Person, Self Esteem, Support

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

Like, People, Social, Taken, Tattoo, Time

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

Looks, Red, Terrible, Theater

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized. . . I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Gay, I Realized, Like, Parade, Parades

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Dark, Deal, Horrific, Things In Life, Way

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

Racism, World, Sexism, Notion, True

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

Country, Making, People, Racial, Usa

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Back, Christianity, Come, Jesus, Want

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

Dancer, Dancers, Dancing, House, Whole

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro. ' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

Cutting, Editing, Home, Obsessed, Video

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

Felt, Fit, Growing Up, Mother, School

If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.

Person, Persons, Sex, Should

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

Color, Correctness, Equalize, Political, Silence

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Ears, Funny, Heart, Mind, Order, Secure

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.

Hurt, Looks, Used, Want

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Done, Entire, Think, Thinking, Trying

What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

Arm, Depressing, Entirely, Lonely, Real, Way

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

Make Others Happy, Order, Comedian, Happy, Vulnerable

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. . . . After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life?. . . What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Fire, Frenzy, Idol, Idols, Leave, Real

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

1500S, Church, Fun, Stupid, Think, Thinking

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