Sarah Schulman famous quotes

04-17-2025

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
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
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

#People #Long #Accountability
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
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
Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.
-- Sarah Schulman

#Art #Talking #Looks
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
I am not here to entertain straight people.
-- Sarah Schulman

#People
MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.
-- Sarah Schulman

#Art #World #Program
The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.
-- Sarah Schulman

#Wind #Magazines #Ink
What I tend to tell my students is, â€œWhen 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.â€
-- Sarah Schulman

#Girl #Smart #Mirrors
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
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
You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
-- Sarah Schulman

#Order #Able
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
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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