#minority

The minority yields to the majority! ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#minority #yields

A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accustomed. For up to this point, minority writers had to add "the universal" to their points of view if they wished to attain the unquestioned universality of the dominant class. Gay men, for example, have always defined themselves as a minority and never questioned, despite their transgression, the dominant choice. This is why gay culture has always had a fairly wide audience. [From the Foreword "Changing the Point of View" by Louise Turcotte] ↗

— Monique Wittig

#gay #gender #lesbian #louise-turcotte #minority

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#does #growth #marginal #margins #minority

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#courage #majority #minority #test #tolerance

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#crippled #game #handicapped #i #i love

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#beginning #century #intelligent #january #mark

The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress. ↗

— Tench Coxe

#hands #minority #power #say #sword

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#age #almost #between #every #funniest

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. ↗

— Carol Kane

#interested #minority #people #such #theater

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #crime #deepest #isolation #minority