"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."

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Audre Lorde

#Lonely Quotes #Gay Quotes #Keys Quotes

“Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.”
“They hadnâ€™t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadnâ€™t anticipated its will to live.”
“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
“I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.”

Source : "Arab-American Crowned 2010 Miss USA". www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2010.
“Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.”
“I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.”
“I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.”
“It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.”

Source : John Shelby Spong (2009). “The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love”, p.12, Harper Collins

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