By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden. - Patrick Califia

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patrick Califia

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Coming Out, Energy, Free, Part, Spent

Same Author Quotes

Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers. . . are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.

Boy, Christian, Priests, Religious, Staid, Teacher

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

Close, Hate, People, Preach, Prejudice

As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

Commitment, Long, Interesting, Shortage, Things

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

Wish, Wipe, Invisible, Wishes, Attempts

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

Know, Make, Truth Is, Wisdom, World, Writing

Similar Quotes

Simone Elkeles

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Argument, Arguments, Confrontation, Painful, People, Relationships

Budd Hopkins

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

Academia, Credentials, Long, Originality

Patti Smith

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Hendrix, Morrison, People, Rocks, Sonic, Two

Katee Sackhoff

I was such a huge Bruce Willis fan because of all the Die Hards and Arnold Schwarzenegger was like 'the guy. ' Kindergarten Cop was filmed in my home state and I was like, "He's awesome! Now he gets his hair cut next to me, it's fantastic. "

Arnold, Cutting, Hair, Home, Huge, State

Geoffrey Fieger

I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

Client, Compassion, Jail, Kindness, Religious, State