Humor & Life Quote by Margaret Cho

“Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate” lands like a club track dropped in the middle of a street fight: not delicate, not abstract, but loud enough to change what your body does in the room. Coming from Margaret Cho, a comedian who’s spent decades turning racial backlash, queer shame, and political hypocrisy into punchlines, the metaphor matters. She doesn’t frame love as a moral lesson; she frames it as sound engineering.

The “noise of hate” is telling. Hate is positioned as constant, ambient, and cheap - the kind of racket that fills a space because it’s easy to make. “Boiling” would imply heat and intention; “noise” implies mindless repetition, the feedback loop of trolls, pundits, and everyday microaggressions. Cho knows that hate thrives on airtime. Her answer isn’t to argue with it; it’s to drown it out.

“Big booming beat” carries the cultural DNA of clubs, marches, and comedy rooms: communal spaces where rhythm syncs strangers into a temporary we. That’s the subtext: love isn’t just a private feeling, it’s a collective practice that requires volume. It’s performative in the best sense - you have to project it, amplify it, make it impossible to ignore.

There’s also a sly realism in “covers up.” She’s not claiming hate disappears. She’s proposing a survival strategy: build something louder than the cruelty, something that keeps you moving anyway. For a comedian, that’s also a thesis about art itself: don’t sanitize the ugliness; overwhelm it with a beat people can live to.