"Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender."

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Source : "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.

Cleve Jones

#Teenager Quotes #Gay Quotes #Years Quotes

“I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.”
“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”
“Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.”
“I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.”

Source : Curve magazine Interview, 2006.
“For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.”
“What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.”

Source : Gail Sher (1999). “One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers”, p.115, Penguin
“As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.”
“While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”

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