I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.
I am from the ghetto.
It's a historic moment for the Dalits of Punjab that party has released Dalit manifesto giving voice to their issues and concerns.
Pride is not just any summer festival. It is a celebration - but it is also a manifestation of human rights. It is serious - and joyful. It is a reminder of the progress that has been made - but also of everything that still remains to be done.
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you're in any kind of marginalized community where people don't want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen.
In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.
I get emotionally spent answering questions about my dead father and my criminal friends and my upbringing in a hippie environment in a marginalized community.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?
If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.
