Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.
When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.
Technology is the gene uncorked.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
. . . A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)