"I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements."

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Source : "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

John Amaechi

#Gay Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
“Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”
“I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.”
“Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.”
“Agriculture is the new golf”
“Where there is no math, there is no freedom.”
“It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.”
“By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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