Futurity Quotes

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. (p. 1)”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“It’s important to remember that you and the work are now, right here — and there is, in fact, no promise of a future. Dealing in the now as opposed to some possible future where you have to defend the work on practical or economic grounds becomes another way to dodge what matters most — the work now. Futurity is weaponized against one’s own talents, against the only thing that makes the talent worth speaking of — what is before you now and not in some projected Muad’dib future.”
― Junot Díaz

“Hope. A key component in countless little lives.

It was an emotion which tended to be smugly suppressed by those who considered they could envisage the future with certainty. For hope thrives on the unknown. Hopelessness, or despair to give it a less syllabic and sibilant name, can be seen as an attempt to know there is no future, but really there is. Even in the deepest despondency a tiny atom of doubt keeps the flame alive. (Chapter 2)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Congress of Dolls