if you are a woman, if you are a person of colour,
if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence,
if you are a person of integrity,
then you are considered a minority in this world.
and it's going to be really hard for us to find messages of self-love and support anywhere....
if you don't have self-esteem, you will hesitate to do anything in your life....
you will hesitate to report a rape.
you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against
because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender.
you will hesitate to vote; you will hesitate to dream.
for us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution,

...and our revolution is long overdue.

margaret cho

2:32 a.m. - 2007-08-29