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Top 25 Margo Jefferson Quotes (2025 Update)

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Depression is so treacherous – it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it’s yours and yours alone – no one else can interfere with it.”

1. “Depression is so treacherous – it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it’s yours and yours alone – no one else can interfere with it.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Creativity isn’t far away, or outside of you. It’s an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one’s watching. The payoff is magnificent.”

2. “Creativity isn’t far away, or outside of you. It’s an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one’s watching. The payoff is magnificent.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “For better or worse, there is not a situation in one’s daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.”

3. “For better or worse, there is not a situation in one’s daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.”

4. “The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “So I grew. And as I grew I learned that in the world beyond family and family friends, your mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk.”

5. “So I grew. And as I grew I learned that in the world beyond family and family friends, your mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “I have cuts and bruises that do not map a course.”

6. “I have cuts and bruises that do not map a course.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Nadinola Bleaching Cream: “Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?”

7. “Nadinola Bleaching Cream: “Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.”

8. “I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “And white women can reform nothing until and unless they are willing to relinquish their caste privilege, those codes of racial and social superiority they extol in their men and instill in their children.”

9. “And white women can reform nothing until and unless they are willing to relinquish their caste privilege, those codes of racial and social superiority they extol in their men and instill in their children.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Showing off was permitted, even encouraged, only if the result reflected well on your family, their friends, and your collective ancestors.”

10. “Showing off was permitted, even encouraged, only if the result reflected well on your family, their friends, and your collective ancestors.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “I hate when I’m supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.”

11. “I hate when I’m supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren’t looking. Keep a close watch.”

12. “Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren’t looking. Keep a close watch.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “I was a jealous little she-reader; I resented pouring myself into the lives of hero-boys.”

13. “I was a jealous little she-reader; I resented pouring myself into the lives of hero-boys.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Being an Other, in America, teaches you to imagine what can’t imagine you.”

14. “Being an Other, in America, teaches you to imagine what can’t imagine you.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.”

15. “Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “So I won’t trap myself into quantifying which matters more, race, or gender, or class. Race, gender, and class are basic elements of one’s living. Basic as utensils and clothing; always in use; always needing repairs and updates. Basic as body and breath, justice and reason, passion and imagination. So the question isn’t “Which matters most?,” it’s “How does each matter?” Gender, race, class; class, race, gender – your three in one and one in three.”

16. “So I won’t trap myself into quantifying which matters more, race, or gender, or class. Race, gender, and class are basic elements of one’s living. Basic as utensils and clothing; always in use; always needing repairs and updates. Basic as body and breath, justice and reason, passion and imagination. So the question isn’t “Which matters most?,” it’s “How does each matter?” Gender, race, class; class, race, gender – your three in one and one in three.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “The media wants to call them riots, but they’re uprisings. Why should black people behave well to get their rights? White people don’t behave and they get all the rights they want.”

17. “The media wants to call them riots, but they’re uprisings. Why should black people behave well to get their rights? White people don’t behave and they get all the rights they want.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.”

18. “What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “There was a girl, once upon a time and in your time. She embraced her life up to a point, then rejected it, and from that rejection have come all her difficulties.”

19. “There was a girl, once upon a time and in your time. She embraced her life up to a point, then rejected it, and from that rejection have come all her difficulties.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.”

20. “She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Striving ardently to be what they were and were not. Behold the Race Flaneur: the bourgeois rebel who goes slumming, and finds not just adventure but the objective correlative for his secret despair.”

21. “Striving ardently to be what they were and were not. Behold the Race Flaneur: the bourgeois rebel who goes slumming, and finds not just adventure but the objective correlative for his secret despair.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future.”

22. “And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “When he’s not lynching you, he’s humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They.”

23. “When he’s not lynching you, he’s humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Caucasian privilege lounged and sauntered, draped itself casually about, turned vigilant and commanding, then cunning and devious. We.”

24. “Caucasian privilege lounged and sauntered, draped itself casually about, turned vigilant and commanding, then cunning and devious. We.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.”

25. “White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “I catch myself thinking that I’m not physically visible, that whoever I’m talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.”

26. “I catch myself thinking that I’m not physically visible, that whoever I’m talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “Children always find ways to subvert while they’re busy complying. This child’s method of subversion? She would achieve success, but she would treat it like a concession she’d been forced to make. For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required. She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.”

27. “Children always find ways to subvert while they’re busy complying. This child’s method of subversion? She would achieve success, but she would treat it like a concession she’d been forced to make. For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required. She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.”

— Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson Quote: “An acting teacher friend of mine readies her students for auditions by telling them to imagine placing all the techniques and tools they’ve acquired into a barrel, and put it on like rodeo clowns do. Not to be glanced at or checked on anxiously, but to be with you and at the ready when the audition demands.”

28. “An acting teacher friend of mine readies her students for auditions by telling them to imagine placing all the techniques and tools they’ve acquired into a barrel, and put it on like rodeo clowns do. Not to be glanced at or checked on anxiously, but to be with you and at the ready when the audition demands.”

— Margo Jefferson

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