Margaret Cho Quotes

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

I thought, wait and see—maybe it [AIDS] is not as hot as some are making it appear. I definitely admit to a gross underestimate. We're running scared.

Influenza killed more people in September, October, and November of 1918 than AIDS killed in all the years since it entered the human population.

As fearsome as Covid-19 is, it is not the Nazis.

When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.