"Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody."

-- Donna Freitas

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“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I canâ€™t explain â€” I donâ€™t need to. I know that if thereâ€™s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. Iâ€™m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.”

Source : "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.
“There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.”
“It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.”
“People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”
“I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.”

Source : "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”
“You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.”
“Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.”

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