I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Audre Lorde
Related We wanted to make the student community more aware of the issues people face as openly gay or lesbia... ROB ANDERSON Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think... CHUCK WOLFE I will bet my bottom dollar that it will bring a significant number of gay and lesbian votes to Cuom... ETHAN GETO George was a leader in the lesbian and gay community in fighting discrimination and demanding equal ... DOUGLAS ELLIOTT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay. CAROL LEIFER There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's s... CATHERINE OPIE Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian commun... MARK UDALL Our hope is, we can have a productive day of dialogue [at each stop] about gay and lesbian issues. JACOB REITAN People can't stand up and slam the gay and lesbian community when there's such a wonderful example o... CHUCK WOLFE I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more i... GENE ROBINSON I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian th... JUDITH BUTLER We wanted to create a place for healing and wellness for the gay and lesbian community. But the mark... KEITH BRADKOWSKI I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support... STANLEY FISH We market to people that are forward thinking and like the energy of the urban lifestyle. We find in... DAN DANIEL The films lead to conversations, and conversations lead to greater awareness, a level of comfort wit... NEIL GIULIANO Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It... MONICA RAYMUND In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride wh... REBEL WILSON In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he ... FRANKLIN GRAHAM Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was anything worth editi... KAITLIN SCOTT She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. JUDITH BUTLER For several years, we have tracked the strong affinity of the gay-lesbian market for travel, particu... BOB WITECK I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much ... A. J. MCLEAN Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement h... CHAZ BONO The trend I'm seeing is like a postmodern approach to queer experience, more like stretching the bou... JOSEPH COOK As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed t... AUDRE LORDE It doesn't appear he understands the sensitivity to gay and lesbian students when a word like that i... RAND HOCH I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We'... CARLOS PONCE I just don't think he understands how dehumanizing his comments were to gay and lesbian people and h... RAND HOCH We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN There has been a whole new level of interaction. I have not seen the gay and lesbian community activ... BRIAN WINFIELD But it really leads us to believe he doesn't understand the sensitivity of minority groups, especial... RAND HOCH I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn't know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the le... SETH ROGEN The Task Force thanks the International Lesbian and Gay Association, the International Gay and Lesbi... MATT FOREMAN Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. JEFFREY MONTGOMERY To some extent, every church in the valley, to my knowledge, has gay and lesbian participation, and ... ANDREW GREEN I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian. BETTY DODSON She's our first real butch on the show - a fabulously attractive butch, but nonetheless a real butch... ILENE CHAIKEN And let's not make any mistake, or gloss over that fact: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender peop... JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Our goal is not to be New York or L.A., but to provide a nice atmosphere for the gay and lesbian com... DARIN SMITH They absolutely have an expertise in advertising to people who are targeting gay and lesbian viewers... JASON KLARMAN This will give hope to millions of isolated, vulnerable, lesbian and gay people especially those liv... PETER TATCHELL I thought, why not one at Sundance? There are so many gay executives here working in the mainstream,... ELLEN HUANG Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I wan... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS This episode goes into the homes of real families to show that gay and lesbian couples make the same... MATT COLES The group wanted not only to know where voters are on that issue but how they see gay and lesbian ri... BILL MORRIS It's significant because never before has the city elected such an important person who's lesbian or... DICK DADEY If you put a face on a gay or lesbian person, it's harder to discriminate. HAVEN HERRIN You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. JUDITH LIGHT If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at ... KEN LIVINGSTONE I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe ... TED OLSON My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where Lesbian and Gay people can celebrate wh... JOHN FISHER John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not me... PATRICK GUERRIERO Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state. JOHN SHELBY SPONG I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ... LARRY KRAMER I know the governor is conflicted. Arnold has some very close gay and lesbian friends. I know it's a... BILL ROSENDAHL Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali... SUSAN ESTRICH Many couples choose not to marry so that they may preserve their social security, pension, and veter... RAND HOCH I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual comm... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to ... SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public rela... JASMINE GUY As time passes, there is a greater acceptance of gay and lesbian rights and greater support of anti-... MARK DICAMILLO The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused... AUDRE LORDE When the woman in the audience at my talk said "I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women",... JUDITH BUTLER In one sense, you can be really excited about this because it shows gay and lesbian relationships ar... TIMOTHY ANDERSON Antigay activists have historically maintained that same-sex sexuality is a lifestyle choice that sh... LISA DIAMOND I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm not even kind of a lesbian. OPRAH WINFREY Everyday, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in Wales avoid public spaces and places where they feel ... ALISON PARKEN I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I w... CATHERINE OPIE So the first woman to do something, the first African-American person to do something, the first gay... CAROLYN M. BYERLY I think the public's more understanding now of the gay and lesbian issue. It's much more sophisticat... DONNA LOPIANO I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian. BETTY DODSON Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every ... ZACHARY QUINTO I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON Personal savings accounts would help achieve equality by letting gay or lesbian partners leave part ... CHRIS BARRON I’m scared to fall asleep. I don’t want to see it... REBECCA YBARRA For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their d... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER As a lesbian, I'm not comfortable on the cover of a magazine holding another woman, ROSIE O'DONNELL Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le... KATE CLINTON I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of ... LENA HEADEY I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian. ELLEN DEGENERES For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravel... MADELEINE GEORGE I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a ... JENNIFER NETTLES The big peaceable kingdom on the U.S. border will demonstrate that it is absolutely possible for rel... ALEX MUNTER Today represents another milestone toward the fulfillment of the American dream for thousands of les... MARK LENO This guy looks pretty gay to me. JEFFREY MONTGOMERY If you're lesbian or gay, you have to be out of your mind to support Mike Bloomberg for mayor. CHRISTOPHER LYNN Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty ch... DAVID DEMCHUK I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of wh... GENE ROBINSON [The business partners who own Cafeteria are all gay and lesbian. In addition a significant percenta... MARK THOMAS Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless y... ELLEN DEGENERES The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet.... AMANDA BEARSE There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of wh... GENE ROBINSON As far as we're concerned, when Ford made its statement to us last month, the matter was finished an... JEFFREY MONTGOMERY We shouldn't disgrace our constitution to forever deny the many lesbian and gay couples in Florida t... KAREN DOERING
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AUDRE LORDE I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made ve... AUDRE LORDE Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each o... AUDRE LORDE Your silence will not protect you. AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. AUDRE LORDE In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro... AUDRE LORDE If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for ... AUDRE LORDE There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. AUDRE LORDE Our visions begin with our desires. AUDRE LORDE The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between th... AUDRE LORDE When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an... AUDRE LORDE It is not our differences that divide us. 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AUDRE LORDE Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away... AUDRE LORDE There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, w... AUDRE LORDE The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we l... AUDRE LORDE For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily... AUDRE LORDE We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the ... AUDRE LORDE The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused... AUDRE LORDE My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,... AUDRE LORDE Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded... AUDRE LORDE Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world. AUDRE LORDE Silence has never brought us anything of worth AUDRE LORDE As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses an... AUDRE LORDE I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not e... AUDRE LORDE It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color wil... AUDRE LORDE There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. AUDRE LORDE I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ... AUDRE LORDE Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it l... AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house AUDRE LORDE In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, h... AUDRE LORDE It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a se... AUDRE LORDE I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, t... AUDRE LORDE What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another ... AUDRE LORDE As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed t... AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi... AUDRE LORDE If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answe... AUDRE LORDE I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as t... AUDRE LORDE I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had th... AUDRE LORDE Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always ... AUDRE LORDE ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the li... AUDRE LORDE We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed,... AUDRE LORDE We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak ... AUDRE LORDE A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. AUDRE LORDE When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or te... AUDRE LORDE What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation a... AUDRE LORDE I have died too many deaths that were not mine. AUDRE LORDE It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water... AUDRE LORDE I am the sun and moon and forever hungry the sharpened edge where day and night shall... AUDRE LORDE The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist pa... AUDRE LORDE young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily. AUDRE LORDE I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic AUDRE LORDE places do not change so much as what we seek in them AUDRE LORDE I am tired of writing memorials to black men whom I was on the brink of knowing weary like... AUDRE LORDE ...may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave AUDRE LORDE see me now your severed daughter laughing our name into echo all the world shall reme... AUDRE LORDE Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does. AUDRE LORDE What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow ... AUDRE LORDE I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a l... LORDE The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. LORDE My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homewo... LORDE I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for a... LORDE I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of... LORDE I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. LORDE I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural a... LORDE I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. ... LORDE When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really m... LORDE I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the ... LORDE Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y... LORDE I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from.... LORDE I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I... LORDE Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything g... LORDE I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it... LORDE Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear ... LORDE I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and peop... LORDE People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the inform... LORDE I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. An... LORDE Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens o... LORDE It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to conve... LORDE I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air, So there. LORDE I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, pe... LORDE In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there... LORDE With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly thei... LORDE You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs g... LORDE I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switc... LORDE I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor... LORDE I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that. LORDE I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland... LORDE My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. LORDE We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, ... LORDE If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. LORDE