“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul....”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.”
― The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
― The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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