OUTWORDS interviewed Gene in April 2017 at his palatial home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. In his blunt Rhode Island accent, Gene continues to insist that every single person’s life is valuable, important, and interesting.
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“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser. –Mother Jones”
― Rednecks
― Rednecks
“Speak these truths aloud, for it is only in silence that horror can persist. The courage to call a thing by its true name galvanizes the human spirit to address it.”
― The Beauty in Breaking
― The Beauty in Breaking
“A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?”
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that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?”
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