Lgbt People

"We want liberty, justice and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come."

"You're gonna live longer than the ball is bouncing, God willing, and so there's a whole lot of life after basketball. So you kinda have to learn how to be a good human and, I can't think of a better person than coach Summitt that modeled that."

"I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote – vote small, vote for what’s going on in your city."

"I grew up with two older brothers who excelled at every single thing. And so, their shadows were very large and daunting at times."

"Happiness and joy don’t sell as well as suffering and crawling our ways up seemingly insurmountable hills. No, people are incredibly entertained by Black women’s suffering to the point of wishing ill upon us to see what the output will be"

"We are all the same people. Understand that the boat just went to different places. We originated in the same spots. We are all the same"

"There’s a privilege to being able to go to school and see someone standing at the front that looks like you. It’s not until you get the teacher who looks like you, who’s teaching a class on African American studies. That changed my life. I said, ‘What is this? I did not know any of this!’ It was the first time that I felt like I was learning something about where I came from that was not revolving around being subservient to someone else or less than someone else"

"But when Black women sing, we seem to be given permission to perform pain for others to consume. People demand that Black women singers emote suffering and go so far as to call it their “best” music"

"This really makes sense because what we're doing is conspiring to shut down entire systems of oppression"

"The people who tend to call themselves allies are usually the people with privilege, who will not have a mutual benefit from whatever they're trying to help with"

"We are challenging that system and so we have to conspire. We have to plot and plan the ways in which we can tear those systems down"

"I have been really focused on this idea that I’m coming from a line of people who started this work, and I have to continue"

"I’m really glad to be a part of that because I think that I represent so many — I hate to say it — marginalized identities: I am African American. I am a woman. I am a queer person. I am disabled. I’ve got a lot of these things going on that inform my daily life"

"So any opportunity I have to be a part of a forum (to) engage people to celebrate and to amplify diverse voices and to hold on — in the face of all these attacks on (diversity, equity and inclusion), things like that — to the very simple idea that diversity makes us better, that’s always a good thing"

"I noticed that students are more receptive to videos than they are to assigned readings and things like that. And so I’m trying to negotiate, ‘How do we make that happen?’ How do I let them know that this is still an ongoing thing: That 100 years ago, we were still talking about issues of racial discrimination, sexist discrimination. That this is not a new thing? … So, trying to bridge those gaps is a little bit difficult. And I think that there is a lot of apathy"

"I, as an older person need to be like, ‘All right, I’ll work with you on this.’ I’ve tried to pass this torch, you know, and be supportive, but we can’t just point fingers at them and be like, ‘Oh, they’re lazy. They don’t want to do anything"

"The mutual benefit would be, 'Wow, now both black and white people won't be suspected of shoplifting"

"Well, white people already had that. So, what do they gain out of this? Black people are free to shop. But what do the white people get [that they didn't already have]"

"The last thing I'm interested in is someone who is slapping a label on themselve as a way to be recognized as a good person"

"No one wants to hear that we might be in a psychological state that weakens us or renders us unable to serve them; we must be strong at all times and no one wants to hear otherwise"

"I read “The Education of The Negro Prior To 1861” and I understood what Carter G. Woodson was talking about. The pain that I felt that it took me becoming an adult to first learn these things was traumatizing to me. And all I could think to myself was, ‘What about everyone else? They’re not studying themselves. What will they become?’ And that’s where we get stuck in a lot of things"

"What our ancestors and elders have been trying to do is make things better for each generation. But we equate better with proximity to whiteness and we have to stop doing that… Sometimes the consequence is a separation from cultural traditions and affinity… But cultural memory is strong. Even when you are displaced or removed or separated from each other, that memory is there"

"It's impossible for me to say what happens after the inauguration," she says. "This campaign has been planned for more than a year; it's coming out now."

"The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide. The mantle of concern for children is being claimed to destroy children's lives. We have to take a firmer stand on behalf of those who are being hurt."

"I started my pediatric residency program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1983,"That was before the HiB vaccine came out, which protects against a bacteria called Haemophilus Influenzae Type B. "We used to see so many children with very serious bacterial infections due to this bacteria — pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis. And after the vaccines came out and had been given for a number of years, we really no longer see those infections."

"work on every genre of literature from fiction to poetry, non-fiction and drama. I do work more on some than the others. My dominant focus, for instance, is mostly fiction and poetry. Recently though, I compiled a non-fiction anthology called Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of LGBT Nigerians. Of all the genres, I enjoy poetry the most. It gives me a space to condense my words and say a lot in a very limited space. It challenges me to utilize figures of speech, imagery and mood to capture my thought and ideas. I also like non-fiction because there is urgency about it. It almost feels as if I am documenting narratives live, as they happen. At the moment, I am working on a critical paper about how films/documentaries can be used as an effective tool of activism for the African LGBTQ activist. Additionally, I am editing and polishing my second collection of poetry collection entitled Brutal Bliss."

"I think it is time for calm heads and clear thinking. I think it is also time for some new influencers in the game, new ideas and more openness. I think it is great that we have Ron and Dave Cormack, who are two really creative thinkers who ask the question: “What does the modern game look like? What will it look like? Where do we fit in that?"

"I thought, ‘you’re having a laugh… I’m not leaving now. There’s not a chance I’m going to walk away when things are tough, if anything it makes me more determined."

"These will be really testing times but really interesting times because I think it is going to change everything. Actually, probably, in some small way, everything in football had to change anyway."

"I’m certain there was some whispers, some comments, but never really directed at me and I would say if someone were to do that then they would be getting short shrift."

"Like many people who eventually realise at a point in their life that they are gay, you go through challenges, and I did struggle a little bit, if I’m honest."

"I just wanna be everybody’s everything I want too much from people but then I don’t want anything from them at the same time u feel me I don’t let people help me but I need help but not when I have my pills but that’s temporary one day maybe I won’t die young and I’ll be happy? What is happy I always have happiness for like 10 seconds and then it’s gone. I’m getting so tired of this."

"You wanna see your friends, but you're stuck inside a hospital. Doctor walks in and he tells you that it's terminal tumor in your brain and they're sayin' it's inoperable. Isn't life beautiful? I think that life is beautiful."

"I suffer from depression and some days I wake up and I’m like, Fuck, I wish I didn’t wake up. That was part of why I moved to California, trying to get away from the place that was doing that to me, and the people I was around."

"Would you fuck me right on the floor? I'm feelin' naughty. I wish to explore your features, secrets hidden in your body."

"Whip it like a NASCAR, I can see the time pass Feel like I'm in high school, fuckin' me in gym class Shawty, I remember that, I know you remember that You was fuckin' with me way before I even wrote raps."

"You had another boy to hold your hand Okay, now I see it, bitch You want me to beat it, bitch I ain't finna beat it, no, no."

"When I die You'll love me."

"Sixteen lines of blow and I'm fine Break my bones but act as my spine Wonder who you'll fuck when I die And if I tried to call, would you cry? Please don't cry, you're wasting your time Sixteen lines to make me feel fine."

"Pussy on the leather seats, music and ecstasy. She don't think I'm sexy, but I can't let that get to me. Fuck her 'til she red and then she keep comin' next to me. Fuck her 'til she dead and she gon' keep comin' next to me. Fuck her, give me head, she gon' keep givin' neck to me. Fuck her in your bed and she gon' leave, come and wet the sheets."

"Switchblades, cocaine. GothBoiClique, make a ho shake. Black fur, black coat. GothBoiClique in the back, ho."

"Look at the sky tonight All of the stars have a reason."

"Lord why, Lord why do I gotta wake up? More wine, more wine, baby, pour another cup."

"They don't see me 'less I pull up Lamborghini. Everybody wanna be me 'til I pull up and they meet me. I'ma die slow, sweetie, I ain't never had a meanin'. Just another fuckin' junkie, drain my blood, but don't be greedy."

"I remember eatin' pussy on the back of the bus. I remember gettin' nookie 'til the sun came up. All the places that you took me, no one came with us. Same hoes overlook me, now they on my nuts."

"I met her by chance I said, "I really like your pants" I know you got a man Gimme your hand (fuck it) Teen romance, gimme this dance Yeah, I took a Xan (yeah) I hope you understand."

"I used to wanna kill myself. Came up, still wanna kill myself. My life is goin' nowhere. I want everyone to know that I don't care."

"Leave some liquid for the centipedes, they eat away my memory Feed me to my enemies Lead me to death, I'm Lil Kennedy I ain't got no remedy, bury me."

"Nothing worse than losin' a friend And the feeling you get when everybody that you love ain't around I really gotta get away from this town I'm just waiting for a wave and I'll drown Satan letting me down."

"Let me bleed, watch me die I got golden teeth, she got bright green eyes She's my fantasy, she only comes at night She don't know 'bout me, what goes on inside I'll let you feel my pain if you would get me high Had to make my name, I had to break my spine Now I'm on my way, I'm just lookin' for pain Bitches fuck me the same, it don't matter the place, okay I just wanna die by my mama's side."