You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: The stupid and the envious. The stupid will like you in time. The envious, never.
~ John Wilmot
As portrayed by Johnny Depp in The Libertine
I think being a little bit of a nerd is good for creative people because I think what defines a nerd is you're so into the thing that you’re doing that you don’t care what other people think, you can’t get something from nothing, you have to put yourself into it and that means an uncommon amount of devotion.
~ Guy Aitchison
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such unreal lives. They take the images outside them for reality and never let the world within assert itself
Those who do not know AND understand history are bound to repeat it.
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Others it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough
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While many minority groups are the target for prejudice and discrimination...in our society, few people face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as many gay and bisexual youth do.
~ Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being that by the time I get through with all the things I really admire about a person, what they do with their private parts is so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
~ Paul Newman
People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie and it's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay.
~ Perry King
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein
"Homosexuality cannot be morally evil: Attraction is not a choice, and therefore is no more a moral issue than having blonde hair or being left-handed. Acting on the attraction IS a choice, but what is so immoral about two individuals freely choosing to express their love for one another? Only one with a hated for all human love could ever offer an answer to that question"
Walking home I see myself on the cement.
The moon behind me, raining rays of milky white.
I follow my own shadow down the sidewalk
Carved out of the Earth by city employed men.
Abruptly my shadow collides with another.
A larger, more ominous shadow.
It was that of a tree.
It's branches long and sadly twisted.
As if it had arthritis.
An abandoned bird's nest swayed in it's skeletal fingers.
Falling gradually from the tree's gnarly grasp.
Where a family may have once had a picnic in the shade.
But the wind robbed the nest
Because the tree could no longer hold it proudly in the air.
I paused for a moment more,
And then pushed on.
Thinking how like the tree
I may become in my old age.
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My Hero
~~~ Mohandas K. Gandhi ~~~
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind"
"God has no religion"
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always"
