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“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: change, fruit, hope, hopeful, patience, planting, seed, seeds

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“Yes, eros and agape are different, but the stifling of the former leads to a distortion of the latter.”
― Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality

tags: agape, eros, gay, love, queer

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“You travel certainly, in every sense of the word. But you take with you everything that you have been, just as the landscape stores up its own past. Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.”
― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

tags: belonging, celtic-spirituality, home, hospitality, longing, nature

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“That little baggage hath witchcraft in her.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: fairy, hester-prynne, nathaniel-hawthorne, pearl, scarlet-letter, witch, witchcraft

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“To be clear, I’m not, like, a drag queen. I’m not trans. I just like how I look with my eyes outlined in dark colors, or sometimes some color on my eyelids or lips. Call me femme if you want, or a queen, but whatever it is, it’s just me. And after sitting in a room with a dozen other kids and knowing thousands of other kids are also sitting in rooms, taking the same test, making us all anonymous little filled-in dots on answer sheets, I desperately want to feel like me again. I deserve to. So I buy me, or at least the things that make me feel like me. Capitalism must be so proud of what it’s made me into.”
― Lev A.C. Rosen

tags: capitalism, queer, queer-youth

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