Sarah Schulman Quotes

• People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Succeed, Made

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• I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Gay, People

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• MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

  Sarah Schulman

  Art, World, Program

  "AIDS and (Its) Gentrification" by Alan Davies, www.poetryfoundation.org. April 9, 2013.

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• In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.

  Sarah Schulman

  Dream, Art, Sex

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• Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Rights, Media

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• You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

  Sarah Schulman

  Order, America, Coalitions

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.

  Sarah Schulman

  Emotional, Law, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

  Sarah Schulman

  Long, People, Accountability

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

  Sarah Schulman

  Art, Talking, Looks

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• The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

  Sarah Schulman

  Wind, Ink, Magazines

  Sarah Schulman (2006). “Empathy”, Arsenal Pulp PressLtd

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• My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  Writing, Gay, People

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• If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

  Sarah Schulman

  Epidemics, People, Identity

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Attention, Want

  Sarah Schulman (2010). “Rat Bohemia (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.

  Sarah Schulman

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

  Sarah Schulman

  Real, White, People

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

  Sarah Schulman

  Girl, Smart, Mirrors

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• Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

  Sarah Schulman

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

  Sarah Schulman

  Order, Able

  Sarah Schulman (2009). “The Mere Future”, Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd

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• I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  People

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