925 Quotes About Lgbtq

In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look "nice". To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn't realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a person I became in that trying.

It doesn't matter if you're inside or outside the closet. Either way, it's impossible to know if you can ever really be free.

Better storytelling can overcome our deepest barriers.

But there would also be a time when these fears would slowly ease—when the need to constantly lock and hide and protect would soften, and she would no longer startle at the gentle passing of fingertips on her back in the morning, or a playful jostle of her shoulder by a laughing girl. These things she hoped for, and knew would come. These things she held closest to her heart, like the first peak of sun over a mountain that whispered: You can have this. You can keep this. You deserve this. 

She’s dressed in a white her soul doesn’t reflect, a drop-dead beauty with drop-dead morals.

I will endure, my midnight sun. I will teach my heart to beat again.

The right way to do any social work is to work until you're not needed anymore.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

I put my chin on his chest. “I have never, ever felt this free.