"For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Maggie Nelson

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
“I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.”
“I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple”
“It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.”
“I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.”
“It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.”
“We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.”

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