That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

We are a complex species to observe.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.