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

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 have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

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