I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.
Margaret ChoHumanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.
Margaret ChoKorean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.
Margaret ChoI thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
Margaret ChoOne place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.
Margaret Cho