Samuel

“Any world which did not have a place for me loving women was not a world in which I wanted to live, nor one which I could fight for.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit