Sarah Schulman Quotes

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Gentrification replaces most people's experiences with the perceptions of the privileged and calls that reality.

Sarah Schulman

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

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

Sarah Schulman

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

At the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards (the awards the LGBT community gives to books ignored by straight book awards) not a single lesbian book nominated for best novel was published by a mainstream press. Our literature is disappearing at the same time we are being told we are winning our rights. How can we be equal citizens if our stories are not allowed to be part of our nation's story?

Sarah Schulman