Mama's Boy Quotes

“Because when you grow up poor in the South, you have two options: you can either sink into your misery and die, or you celebrate every little thing you can and live.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“You beg for crumbs, you get less crumbs.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“Like most LGBTQ people, I had been born to heterosexual parents who didn’t know to, or even how to, instill in me the steely sense of self-worth an LGBTQ minority needs to survive and defend his or her differences. Sadly, it’s all too often those very parents who prove to be their child’s first attackers when they do find out.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy

“To my heart, it felt like the nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ children.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“And braver than any court case or organization, individuals across the country were coming out and sharing their stories on the most consequential stage there is: the family dinner table.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“Proposition 8's passage had sparked something in a new generations that had never felt the sting of discrimination before, while simultaneously calling an older generation back to the fight.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“It wasn't Los Angeles or the film business that had turned me into a troublemaking twenty-year-old. No. It was my mom, who had often told me to "stand up straight and tall." Her conservative values, and even the lessons from her Mormon Church, had taught me that you don't hang an innocent man at high noon, and that good folks stick up for themselves.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas

“I'll never forget the supposed LGBTQ leader up on that stage shouting at us all, "Wait! Where are you going? I'm not done!" And how most refused to heed her demand to stand still. Not tonight. Not one minute longer. We marched.”
― Dustin Lance Black, Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas