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The most revolutionary thing you can do is be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life, including the pain. Find your passions.
No one remembers her beginnings.
It makes no difference where I came from. I’m here, ain’t I?”
How do you know someone is real if you don’t see him?
I’d never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.
“I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.”
“I don’t care what the hell I am. And I ain’t staying away from people because they look different.”
Yeah, maybe I’m queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can’t hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing?
Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I’d rather be alone.
“We don’t look like men, but when women make love it’s commonly labeled lesbianism so you’d better learn not to cringe when you hear the word.”
Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don’t know what I am—
I’m me. That’s all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?”
She couldn’t fathom my ambition, but then Faye couldn’t fathom poverty.
“I know it’s not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I’m happy.”
“Well, we’re just All-American queers.”
No matter what happens to me I’ll still have the knowledge inside my head and nobody can take that away from me.
You’re strong enough to take it, but I’m not strong enough to watch it.
I didn’t expect such an intelligent woman to be so classic a heterosexual bigot.
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they’re the pinnacle of evolution?
Maybe all kids love their mothers, and she’s the only mother I’ve ever known.
Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself. But I knew better on all counts.
