"I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers the story is called history. Before their arrival it is called myth, folktale, legend, fairy tale, oral poetry, ethnography. After the soldiers arrive, it is called history."
- Paula Gunn Allen
“You know, as an artist, it’s not my job to fit in; it’s not my job to belong. I’m not a social worker; I’m not a therapist. It’s my job to beat the s*** out of the world. I’m not here to make people feel good…So you’re always battling the basic human need to be loved and accepted. That’s always the conflict with the artistic need to challenge the world.”
-- Sherman Alexie
“My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.”
-- Armistead Maupin
“Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.”
-- Anna Quindlen
"What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." -- Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
"You can hurt me. You can hate me, but do it because you know me, not because I’m a member of a group. Anyways, people aren’t grapes --- you can’t weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it’s easier than dealing with people as individuals. There, I’ve solved the riddle of prejudice: it saves time."
-- author, Rita Mae Brown
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”-- Rita Mae Brown
“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
-- Rita Mae Brown
“I believe in not being put into ‘either/or’ -- instead, I choose ‘and.’"-- Mandy Carter, black lesbian social justice activist and co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, explaining that she doesn’t have one identity that trumps all her other identities
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”-- Euro-American anthropologist, Margaret Mead
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret Mead
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
-- Susan B. Anthony
(Was she lesbian? Well, the term hadn’t been coined at that point, but see this perspective: http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/anthony_sb.html)
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It's a girl.’" -- Congresswoman (and 1972 presidential candidate) Shirley Chisholm
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” -- Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.” -- Lois Wyse
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.” -- Sally Kempton, attributed
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” -- Maya Angelou
“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” -- Gloria Steinem
“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.” -- Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.”
-- Coretta Scott King
“Homophobia and transphobia pressure straight people to act unkindly or even cruelly towards GLBTQ people and encourage bullying and cruelty toward anyone whose appearance or behavior isn't sufficiently 'macho' or 'feminine' (from the viewpoint of the bully).”
-- Advocates for Youth’s 14 Ways Homophobia and Transphobia Affect Everyone (http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/lessonplans/activistally2.htm) adapted with permission of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network: http://www.gsanetwork.org/
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” -- William E. Simon
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
-- Louis L'Amour
“People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.”
-- Marian Wright Edelman
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Possibly LGBTQ? The term "homosexual" was coined in 1869; the term "transgender," in 1949. Before that, the concepts didn't exist … although some people have loved people of their own biological sex and some people have transgressed gender expectations throughout recorded history. However, until recently in parts of the world, and still today in other places, it has been (or still is) dangerous to love someone of your own gender openly or to behave in ways that aren't typical of people of your biological sex. So for folks who are now deceased and who were not vocal/out about being sexual minorities, we can only piece together evidence that suggests who they may have been romantically involved with or how they might identify if they lived today.
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." ~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize winner (According to OutSmart magazine, "[Hammarskjold's]
diary, Markings, published posthumously in 1966, alluded to homosexual longings, perhaps never fulfilled.)
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." ~ Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer (365gay.com says, "American Flygirl Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. A tomboy, preferring riding pants to dresses, and having a marriage that allowed for infidelity, we will never know if she was bisexual.)
"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one." ~ openly gay U.S Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, whose service earned him a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Force Commendation Medal. Sgt. Matlovich was discharged when he came out as gay.
“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.” ~ singer Courtney Love
"I got tired of this happening, and people always saying 'Why don't you just tell them you're not gay? Why don't you just tell them you're not gay? They'll leave you alone. But at that point, it wasn't about that. I was gay and it didn't matter. This shouldn't have been happening to me."
~ Jamie Nabozny, who in 1996 won the 1st lawsuit of its kind against the principals of several middle and high schools where he was not protected from brutal anti-gay assaults
"The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.' ~ U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld
"The fundamental question is: Are we made by history or do we make history--and the answer is yes." ~ playwright Tony Kushner
"Maybe [being openly gay] hurt my career but really helped my life, which is much better than if it was the reverse." ~ singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." ~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize winner (According to OutSmart magazine, "[Hammarskjold's]
diary, Markings, published posthumously in 1966, alluded to homosexual longings, perhaps never fulfilled.)
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." ~ Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer (365gay.com says, "American Flygirl Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. A tomboy, preferring riding pants to dresses, and having a marriage that allowed for infidelity, we will never know if she was bisexual.)
"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one." ~ openly gay U.S Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, whose service earned him a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Force Commendation Medal. Sgt. Matlovich was discharged when he came out as gay.
“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.” ~ singer Courtney Love
"I got tired of this happening, and people always saying 'Why don't you just tell them you're not gay? Why don't you just tell them you're not gay? They'll leave you alone. But at that point, it wasn't about that. I was gay and it didn't matter. This shouldn't have been happening to me."
~ Jamie Nabozny, who in 1996 won the 1st lawsuit of its kind against the principals of several middle and high schools where he was not protected from brutal anti-gay assaults
"The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.' ~ U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld
"The fundamental question is: Are we made by history or do we make history--and the answer is yes." ~ playwright Tony Kushner
"Maybe [being openly gay] hurt my career but really helped my life, which is much better than if it was the reverse." ~ singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
"I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers the story is called history. Before their arrival it is called myth, folktale, legend, fairy tale, oral poetry, ethnography. After the soldiers arrive, it is called history."
- Paula Gunn Allen
"After all, Lewis and Clark's story has never been just the triumphant tale of two white men, no matter what the white historians might need to believe. Sacagawea was not the primary hero of this story either, no matter what the Native American historians and I might want to believe. The story of Lewis and Clark is also the story of the approximately 45 nameless and faceless first- and second-generation European Americans who joined the journey, then left or completed it, often without monetary or historical compensation. Considering the time and place, I imagine those 45 were illiterate, low-skilled laborers subject to managerial whims and 19th century downsizing. And it is most certainly the story of the black slave York, who also cast votes during this allegedly democratic adventure. It's even the story of Seaman, the domesticated Newfoundland dog who must have been a welcome and friendly presence and who survived the risk of becoming supper during one lean time or another. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal-friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should rightly be celebrated by liberals and castigated by conservatives."
-- Sherman Alexie, in a Time magazine essay entitled "What Sacagewea Means to Me"
“My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.”
-- Armistead Maupin
"You can hurt me. You can hate me, but do it because you know me, not because I’m a member of a group. Anyways, people aren’t grapes --- you can’t weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it’s easier than dealing with people as individuals. There, I’ve solved the riddle of prejudice: it saves time."
-- author, Rita Mae Brown
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.” -- Rita Mae Brown
“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
-- Rita Mae Brown
“I believe in not being put into ‘either/or’ -- instead, I choose ‘and.’" -- Mandy Carter, black lesbian social justice activist and co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, explaining that she doesn’t have one identity that trumps all her other identities
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -- Euro-American anthropologist, Margaret Mead
“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.” -- Margaret Mead
- Paula Gunn Allen
"After all, Lewis and Clark's story has never been just the triumphant tale of two white men, no matter what the white historians might need to believe. Sacagawea was not the primary hero of this story either, no matter what the Native American historians and I might want to believe. The story of Lewis and Clark is also the story of the approximately 45 nameless and faceless first- and second-generation European Americans who joined the journey, then left or completed it, often without monetary or historical compensation. Considering the time and place, I imagine those 45 were illiterate, low-skilled laborers subject to managerial whims and 19th century downsizing. And it is most certainly the story of the black slave York, who also cast votes during this allegedly democratic adventure. It's even the story of Seaman, the domesticated Newfoundland dog who must have been a welcome and friendly presence and who survived the risk of becoming supper during one lean time or another. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal-friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should rightly be celebrated by liberals and castigated by conservatives."
-- Sherman Alexie, in a Time magazine essay entitled "What Sacagewea Means to Me"
“My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.”
-- Armistead Maupin
"You can hurt me. You can hate me, but do it because you know me, not because I’m a member of a group. Anyways, people aren’t grapes --- you can’t weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it’s easier than dealing with people as individuals. There, I’ve solved the riddle of prejudice: it saves time."
-- author, Rita Mae Brown
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.” -- Rita Mae Brown
“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
-- Rita Mae Brown
“I believe in not being put into ‘either/or’ -- instead, I choose ‘and.’" -- Mandy Carter, black lesbian social justice activist and co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, explaining that she doesn’t have one identity that trumps all her other identities
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -- Euro-American anthropologist, Margaret Mead
“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.” -- Margaret Mead
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Meme Maze
By Sankara Saranam
Heathenism is a type of sanity that has never reached epidemic proportions.
Littering is a symptom of insanity.
A pregnant idea can bear a thinker a million children.
To kill an idea, you must kill very holder of the idea; and even that does not kill the idea.
Self-sacrifice, self-knowledge, and self-expansion are the three hidden ideas underlying the most influential ideas from human history.
The strength of a birth pang of a new idea is proportional to its scope.
A good idea is always subversive to other ideas, and it’s always a good idea to have a good idea.
By a meaningful life, meaning beyond mining for means is meant.
Silly people have no idea, but mentally sick people have only one idea.
People who reflexively call a good idea foreign only expose their knack for redundancy.
An error is an idea disconnected from other ideas.
Whatever you do, don’t jump to the gun when you hear something new.
We are a self-mystifying species, living largely by make-believe.
Acting is a first career to all, which means actors are actually acting as if they are acting.
Choose your illusion wisely, but don’t bother choosing no illusion as it will only mean you choose not to acknowledge your illusion.
How can people say self-delusion is not dependable? It’s the one thing on which people depend!
A good fantasy game beats any reality show.
Imagination, when present, is always stronger than will power.Having vision must be the worst crime, because it is never pardoned.
By Sankara Saranam
Heathenism is a type of sanity that has never reached epidemic proportions.
Littering is a symptom of insanity.
A pregnant idea can bear a thinker a million children.
To kill an idea, you must kill very holder of the idea; and even that does not kill the idea.
Self-sacrifice, self-knowledge, and self-expansion are the three hidden ideas underlying the most influential ideas from human history.
The strength of a birth pang of a new idea is proportional to its scope.
A good idea is always subversive to other ideas, and it’s always a good idea to have a good idea.
By a meaningful life, meaning beyond mining for means is meant.
Silly people have no idea, but mentally sick people have only one idea.
People who reflexively call a good idea foreign only expose their knack for redundancy.
An error is an idea disconnected from other ideas.
Whatever you do, don’t jump to the gun when you hear something new.
We are a self-mystifying species, living largely by make-believe.
Acting is a first career to all, which means actors are actually acting as if they are acting.
Choose your illusion wisely, but don’t bother choosing no illusion as it will only mean you choose not to acknowledge your illusion.
How can people say self-delusion is not dependable? It’s the one thing on which people depend!
A good fantasy game beats any reality show.
Imagination, when present, is always stronger than will power.Having vision must be the worst crime, because it is never pardoned.
"How could I have been anyone other than me?" -- gay South African rock star, guitarist and vocalist Dave Matthews
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- American author of Spanish, Cuban, French and Danish descent Anais Nin
"Don't you ever wish You were someone else You were meant to be The way you are exactly
Don't you ever say You don't like the way you are When you learn to love yourself You're better off by far
And I hope you always stay the same Cause there's nothing 'bout you I would change" -- Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same" from the 1999 CD of the same name
"How could anyone ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful How could anyone ever tell you, you were less than whole How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle How deeply you're connected to my soul." -- Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone (ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful?)" from the CD If You See a Dream
"...but here am I; Once a caterpillar, now a butterfly." -- Pet Shop Boys, "Metamorphosis"
“I don't think that [the issue of] sexuality and disability is controversial because of genitals. I don't even think it's controversial so much because of pregnancy. The major reason it's controversial is that it would force a massive reevaluation of who disabled people are.”
-- Dave Hingsburger
"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. " -- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
"From an early age, we're taught not only bigotry but also to feel helpless and hopeless when confronted with it, as if it is a force of nature--like gravity--that we cannot control. This is the lesson we must unlearn. We must break free of the mindset that tells us we have to accept injustice, intolerance, and bigotry..."
-- Kevin Jennings, from "Learning to Swim Upstream"
"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting." -- Andy Warhol
"Can I tell you guys something?" Joe says. "Will you promise not to laugh at me or say it's gross?" "Promise," I say, and Skeezie goes, "Pinky swear," and smiles. "You know what I want more than anything?" I am guessing by the way he takes a deep breath that the answer to this is not to be found in any of Joe's usual wish-list categories, such as home decor or celebrities-I'd-most-like-to-be-stuck-on-a-desert-island-with.
"I think about this a lot, but I've never told anybody. Not Aunt Pam or anybody. What I want more than anything is to hold hands with somebody I like.
Joe pulls his knees up then, sharp, and crosses his arms over them, so he can lay down his head, like now that he's told us this terrible secret he doesn't want to see our faces telling him what we think.
"Does that gross you out?" he asks from inside his folded-up arms. "No," I go, and so does Skeeze. "If that's how you feel, then you should just go for it, man," says Skeezie, getting all serious. "I mean, you're a pretty outrageous character, JoDan. I never seen you exactly lacking for nerve."
Joe lifts his head. "Right. Can you see me walking down the hall holding hands with Colin the way Brittney holds hands with Will, or Sara with Justin? Not that I'm saying Colin would want to or anything, but it's not fair."
-- James Howe, The Misfits, pp. 121-2
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady and American political leader (who was what we would describe today as bisexual)
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land."
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner
"I feel honored that I have the opportunity to be a role model for younger people. I want to educate the kids that it's not OK to hate individuals because they're different. It could be their brother, their sister. It also could be their best friend."
-- Esera Tuaolo, retired NFL football player and openly gay partner and dad
"I didn't come out -- I was out. The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges."
-- Rudy Galindo, Olympic figure skater
"see, i was afraid of redicule. it totally freaked me out. i remember a few times being made fun of by guy friends in elementary. they said sometimes i would act like a girl, or run like a girl. so i fought hard. everyday to make sure i showed no sign of my femme side."
-- Ashley, trans youth who tells her story at comingoutstories.com
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady and American political leader
"If a boy and a girl are able to go to a dance, then two boys ought to be able to go to a dance." -- Virginia Uribe, now-retired founder of Project 10, the first school-based dropout prevention program for students facing sexual orientation discrimination and harassment
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
-- Susan Sontag
"Why shouldn't I take a chance when romance passes by? Why shouldn't I know of love?" -- Cole Porter (lyrics from the song Why Shouldn't I?")
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- American author of Spanish, Cuban, French and Danish descent Anais Nin
"Don't you ever wish You were someone else You were meant to be The way you are exactly
Don't you ever say You don't like the way you are When you learn to love yourself You're better off by far
And I hope you always stay the same Cause there's nothing 'bout you I would change" -- Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same" from the 1999 CD of the same name
"How could anyone ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful How could anyone ever tell you, you were less than whole How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle How deeply you're connected to my soul." -- Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone (ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful?)" from the CD If You See a Dream
"...but here am I; Once a caterpillar, now a butterfly." -- Pet Shop Boys, "Metamorphosis"
“I don't think that [the issue of] sexuality and disability is controversial because of genitals. I don't even think it's controversial so much because of pregnancy. The major reason it's controversial is that it would force a massive reevaluation of who disabled people are.”
-- Dave Hingsburger
"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. " -- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
"From an early age, we're taught not only bigotry but also to feel helpless and hopeless when confronted with it, as if it is a force of nature--like gravity--that we cannot control. This is the lesson we must unlearn. We must break free of the mindset that tells us we have to accept injustice, intolerance, and bigotry..."
-- Kevin Jennings, from "Learning to Swim Upstream"
"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting." -- Andy Warhol
"Can I tell you guys something?" Joe says. "Will you promise not to laugh at me or say it's gross?" "Promise," I say, and Skeezie goes, "Pinky swear," and smiles. "You know what I want more than anything?" I am guessing by the way he takes a deep breath that the answer to this is not to be found in any of Joe's usual wish-list categories, such as home decor or celebrities-I'd-most-like-to-be-stuck-on-a-desert-island-with.
"I think about this a lot, but I've never told anybody. Not Aunt Pam or anybody. What I want more than anything is to hold hands with somebody I like.
Joe pulls his knees up then, sharp, and crosses his arms over them, so he can lay down his head, like now that he's told us this terrible secret he doesn't want to see our faces telling him what we think.
"Does that gross you out?" he asks from inside his folded-up arms. "No," I go, and so does Skeeze. "If that's how you feel, then you should just go for it, man," says Skeezie, getting all serious. "I mean, you're a pretty outrageous character, JoDan. I never seen you exactly lacking for nerve."
Joe lifts his head. "Right. Can you see me walking down the hall holding hands with Colin the way Brittney holds hands with Will, or Sara with Justin? Not that I'm saying Colin would want to or anything, but it's not fair."
-- James Howe, The Misfits, pp. 121-2
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady and American political leader (who was what we would describe today as bisexual)
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land."
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner
"I feel honored that I have the opportunity to be a role model for younger people. I want to educate the kids that it's not OK to hate individuals because they're different. It could be their brother, their sister. It also could be their best friend."
-- Esera Tuaolo, retired NFL football player and openly gay partner and dad
"I didn't come out -- I was out. The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges."
-- Rudy Galindo, Olympic figure skater
"see, i was afraid of redicule. it totally freaked me out. i remember a few times being made fun of by guy friends in elementary. they said sometimes i would act like a girl, or run like a girl. so i fought hard. everyday to make sure i showed no sign of my femme side."
-- Ashley, trans youth who tells her story at comingoutstories.com
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady and American political leader
"If a boy and a girl are able to go to a dance, then two boys ought to be able to go to a dance." -- Virginia Uribe, now-retired founder of Project 10, the first school-based dropout prevention program for students facing sexual orientation discrimination and harassment
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
-- Susan Sontag
"Why shouldn't I take a chance when romance passes by? Why shouldn't I know of love?" -- Cole Porter (lyrics from the song Why Shouldn't I?")
Monday, February 12, 2007
African proverbs:
"He who cannot dance will say:The drum is bad."
Ashanti
----------------------------
"Thought breaks the heart"
Cameroon
-----------------------------
"Even over cold pudding the coward says: "It will burn my mouth."
Ethiopia
------------------------------
"He who has done evil, expects evil."
Guinea
-------------------------------
"The heart is not a knee that can be bent."
Senegal
found at the Jonathan Carroll blog
http://www.jonathancarroll.com/indexframes.html
If you haven't read any of his books do so. You won't be disappointed.
"He who cannot dance will say:The drum is bad."
Ashanti
----------------------------
"Thought breaks the heart"
Cameroon
-----------------------------
"Even over cold pudding the coward says: "It will burn my mouth."
Ethiopia
------------------------------
"He who has done evil, expects evil."
Guinea
-------------------------------
"The heart is not a knee that can be bent."
Senegal
found at the Jonathan Carroll blog
http://www.jonathancarroll.com/indexframes.html
If you haven't read any of his books do so. You won't be disappointed.
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