"Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet."

-- Sarah Schulman

#School Quotes #Rights Quotes #Media Quotes

“What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
“Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.”
“No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.”
“If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.”
“Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.”
“Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.”
“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
“Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.”

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