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“[Michael] Callen and (...) one of his last interviews, with the documentary crew that had followed him to Ohio. “I realize some people could look at my life and say ‘Oh, it was so sad. He died of AIDS and isn’t that tragic.’ But what I want to come through is that even after all the pain and all the torture, and even having AIDS, I can honestly say that being gay is the greatest gift I was ever given. I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
― How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
― How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
“I am trying to place myself in history. I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“Ugly is political.
It is the determiner for who does and does not work;
who does and does not Love;
who does and does not die;
who does and does not eat.”
― Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
It is the determiner for who does and does not work;
who does and does not Love;
who does and does not die;
who does and does not eat.”
― Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
“I think I am starting to vanish slowly from head to toe. There are ten different ways to say sunset. The bartender says my face is wearing all of them.”
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
“If to exploit is human nature, than this, to resist exploitation, is also human nature. No exploiter has ever lived in peace without their weapons, their soldiers, and their propaganda and lies. And I have enough faith in human self-interest to believe that those who do the true labor of society will rise for their own sake until there are no more exploiters to combat, however many eons it will take. Every oppresser, through their denial of humanity, sows the seeds of their own destruction.”
― Heavenly Tyrant
― Heavenly Tyrant
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