Amy E. Hall

Sarah Schulman:

2012-02-12T09:37:00.002-06:00

The final ironic twist is that whenever a situation does arise in which homophobia is pointed to as being socially destructive or personally wrong, the homophobe tends to actually blame his own behavior on gay people themselves.

Ties That Bind, p. 26

Annie Dillard:

2012-02-10T16:18:00.000-06:00

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

The Writing Life, p. 14

Ricky Martin:

2012-02-09T09:28:00.000-06:00

We come from a society that tells us that just because of their religion, people are good or bad. We load ourselves up with prejudices and cultural stigmas that are based on what? On nothing. We have been taught to fear anyone who is different from us... Why? Because of sheer ignorance.

Me, p. 168

Linford Detweiler:

2012-02-08T09:34:00.000-06:00

As for your tender heart, this world's gonna break it wide open; it ain't gonna be pretty, but you're not alone.

"All My Favorite People"

Frank Schaeffer:

2012-02-07T10:07:00.000-06:00

To reject portions of the Bible is not necessarily to reject God or even the essence of Christianity. A great deal of the Bible is contradicted by the Love that predates it and, more importantly, survives in you and me. And that Love edits the Bible for us.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 87

Desmond Tutu:

2012-02-06T10:21:00.000-06:00

If I diminish you ... I diminish myself.

Sarah Schulman:

2012-02-04T11:18:00.002-06:00

Success is opportunity at one's level of merit. More than that is privilege, less is deprivation.

Ties That Bind, p. 169

Larry King:

2012-02-03T09:54:00.002-06:00

Lenny [Bruce]'s humor was really about the way he used his intelligence to turn the world upside down so it could be seen clearly.

Truth Be Told, p. 204

Soren Kierkegaard:

2012-02-02T11:09:00.000-06:00

Christ turned water into wine, but the church has succeeded in doing something even more difficult: it has turned wine into water.

Ricky Martin:

2012-02-01T10:08:00.000-06:00

Even though I felt I had lost hope, everything in my life was aligning to bring me to this exact point of desperation in order to incite me to ask questions and find answers I would have never imagined.

Me, p. 160

Winifred Gallagher:

2012-01-31T09:44:00.000-06:00

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc² nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Frank Schaeffer:

2012-01-30T11:20:00.000-06:00

Another name for uncertainty is humility. No one ever blew up a mosque, church, or abortion clinic after yelling, "I could be wrong."

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 73

Sarah Schulman:

2012-01-28T10:56:00.000-06:00

Withholding creates tension; acknowledgment creates relief.

Ties That Bind, p. 117

Margaret Lee Runbeck:

2012-01-27T09:50:00.002-06:00

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Larry King:

2012-01-26T10:06:00.000-06:00

Over the years, so many of my guests told me they'd opened up because they felt comfortable. You learn a lot when people feel safe.

Truth Be Told, p. 186

Mark Twain:

2012-01-25T10:25:00.000-06:00

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Ricky Martin:

2012-01-24T10:03:00.000-06:00

Life's most valuable lessons are learned in absolute silence.

Me, p. 159

Karin Bergquist:

2012-01-23T09:44:00.000-06:00

Writing for me is an ongoing, necessary form of discovery/self-discovery.

Sarah Schulman:

2012-01-22T09:26:00.001-06:00

Remember, people scapegoat the powerless because there is no consequence for doing so.

Ties That Bind, p. 97

Frank Schaeffer:

2012-01-20T10:59:00.000-06:00

Most religious leaders would rather share their wives than their major donors.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 108

Spanish Proverb:

2012-01-19T11:07:00.000-06:00

Nothing has ever been written about cowards.

George Takei:

2012-01-18T09:29:00.000-06:00

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations -- therein lies our strength and therein lies our joy.

"George Takei's pursuit of 'infinite diversity'"

Margaret Lee Runbeck:

2012-01-17T09:41:00.000-06:00

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Martin Luther King Jr.:

2012-01-16T09:12:00.001-06:00

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Sarah Schulman:

2012-01-14T12:33:00.000-06:00

When a society is not willing to confront the consequences of its cruelty in public, our contemporary culture offers privatized therapy as the only realm where its consequences might be addressed.

Ties That Bind, p. 61

Larry King:

2012-01-13T10:01:00.000-06:00

Success comes from thinking brazenly.

Truth Be Told, p.162

Frank Schaeffer:

2012-01-12T11:45:00.000-06:00

The history of theology (Christian or otherwise) is the history of people desperately trying to fit the way things actually are into the way their holy books say they should be.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 72

Ricky Martin:

2012-01-11T09:35:00.000-06:00

Life is so much more beautiful when you live it with open arms, your guard dropped, and without anxieties or secrets.

Me, p. 12

Leonard Cohen:

2012-01-10T09:50:00.000-06:00

There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Rachel Held Evans:

2012-01-09T10:57:00.000-06:00

True maturity is marked not by how much a person knows but by the wisdom he or she shows in discerning when to speak with authority and when to hold back.

"Driscoll, 'Real Marriage,' and Why Being a Pastor Doesn't Automatically Make You a Sex Therapist"

Sarah Schulman:

2012-01-08T10:33:00.000-06:00

Since gay people face false accusations and shunning every day and in every arena of life, our behavior and state of mind can be deeply affected by either withstanding the assaults, or desperately trying to avoid them.

Ties That Bind, p. 14

Larry King:

2012-01-06T09:53:00.000-06:00

Can somebody tell me what the Tea Party is all about? They say that God is being taken out of our Constitution. Well, God isn't in the Constitution.

Truth Be Told, p. 146

Mahatma Gandhi:

2012-01-05T14:40:00.000-06:00

God, help me to tell the truth to the strong and to avoid telling lies to get the weak's applause.

Frank Schaeffer:

2012-01-04T09:22:00.000-06:00

The more doubts I had, the farther to the Right I moved ideologically, as if shouting loudly enough and demonizing any who disagreed with me could solve my real problem: the growing realization that the Bible is horribly flawed.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 70

Ricky Martin:

2012-01-03T09:46:00.000-06:00

Life is a journey and every step we take moves us in some direction. When we are ready and willing, we learn, we advance, and we grow. But it's very easy -- and very common -- to not take that first step and to stay exactly where we are, because after all, that which is familiar is usually the most comfortable.

Me, p. 9

Albert Einstein:

2012-01-02T10:48:00.002-06:00

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Sarah Schulman:

2012-01-01T10:55:00.000-06:00

Saying nothing while your friend's family or lover or society or cultural institution shuns and scapegoats her is to participate in the process. Yes, it would be better for you, spiritually, to tell the truth to the perpetrator. But, more importantly, her chance for a decent life depends on it.

Ties That Bind, p. 171

Bookin' It in 2011

2011-12-31T11:50:00.003-06:00

I read the following 15 books in 2011. The titles in bold were particularly influential, inspiring or interesting.

Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller - Marshall Chapman
Leavings - Wendell Berry
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain - Portia de Rossi
Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination - Hugh MacLeod
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit edited by Sonny Brewer
Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences - Sarah Schulman
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey - Betty DeGeneres
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man - Chaz Bono
Transparent - Don Lemon
Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering - Meredith Baxter
Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics – and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway - Frank Schaeffer
Raw: A Poetic Journey edited by Aimee Maude Sims
Truth Be Told: Off the Record About Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions - Larry King
Me - Ricky Martin

Larry King:

2011-12-23T08:17:00.002-06:00

That's when you understand it. When it's happening to you.

Truth Be Told, p. 137

Yashar Ali:

2011-12-22T09:33:00.000-06:00

As far as I am concerned, the epidemic of gaslighting is part of the struggle against the obstacles of inequality that women constantly face. Acts of gaslighting steal their most powerful tool: their voice. This is something we do to women every day, in many different ways.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-12-21T09:51:00.000-06:00

When it came to honoring the Bible more than a God Who might have actually created the universe, Mom -- like all conservative religionists hiding behind their holy books -- seemed to ignore the inner witness of Beauty, Humor, Paradox, Complexity, Love, and most of all in terms of what makes us humans, memories of actual experiences.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 63

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-12-20T10:41:00.000-06:00

We've all been there. You know you're capable of doing great things, being in "The Zone," but every external marker out there indicates otherwise -- that you'll never get to do the "life's best work" that you're capable of. That your career will be nothing but drudgery and abuse in exchange for what seems an increasingly meager paycheck.

Yeah, it's a painful place to be. But it doesn't last forever, not if you don't give up. Not if you don't succumb to all the overpriced, treadmill-type external markers of success -- fancy houses, cars, schools, vacations, and "stuff" that you can't really afford, that you don't really need nearly as much as the guy in the next cubicle says that you do.

This is it.

Fight like hell.

Evil Plans, p. 141

Larry King:

2011-12-19T12:57:00.002-06:00

My motto is: I've never learned anything while I was talking.

Truth Be Told, p. 130

Sarah Schulman:

2011-12-17T10:31:00.000-06:00

Silence is the greatest reward a perpetrator can receive, whether the perpetrator is a family, a government, a publishing company, or an individual.

Ties That Bind, p. 170-171

Louie Armstrong:

2011-12-16T10:41:00.000-06:00

I don't know what I do. I just know that I do it.

Larry King:

2011-12-15T17:39:00.000-06:00

I was the facilitator. That's the job. To get the guest to open up so he or she can hit a home run. That's what a lot of people in broadcasting don't understand these days.

Truth Be Told, p. 109

Yashar Ali:

2011-12-14T09:26:00.000-06:00

When these women receive any sort of push back to their reactions, they often brush it off by saying, "Forget it, it's okay." That "forget it" isn't just about dismissing a thought, it is about self-dismissal. It's heartbreaking. No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger, sadness, or frustration. For years, they have been subjected to so much gaslighting that they can no longer express themselves in a way that feels authentic to them.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-12-13T17:08:00.000-06:00

If professional Christians earn their living and derive their meaning from their roles as religious leaders -- not to mention enjoy their power over other people -- then they have all the more motivation to deny their doubts (and their bodies and perhaps their sexual orientation) and to call for others to conform to their beliefs. But note I say "conform to their beliefs" rather than conform to their example.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 67

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-12-12T09:32:00.002-06:00

Ergo, the haters are a sign that you're doing something right. So you probably want to get other people to hate you eventually -- that is, the right kind of people. In some ways, they might actually end up helping you define your mission to others, more than the people who actually love you.

Evil Plans, p. 117

Larry King:

2011-12-11T09:18:00.000-06:00

I don't amass companies or properties. But in a way, I guess you could say I do acquire. I acquire people. The joy in my life is meeting somebody interesting every day.

Truth Be Told, p. 35

Abraham Lincoln:

2011-12-10T10:09:00.000-06:00

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Yashar Ali:

2011-12-09T09:58:00.000-06:00

It's a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it. We continue to burden women because they don't refuse our burdens as easily. It's the ultimate cowardice.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-12-08T11:34:00.000-06:00

As modernity has threatened the belief system of conservative Christians, their resentment has grown into alienation. Rather than rethink their beliefs, many Christian leaders seem hell-bent on forcing the world to conform to their fears.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 66-67

Steve Jobs:

2011-12-07T09:34:00.002-06:00

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Mahatma Gandhi:

2011-12-06T09:40:00.000-06:00

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

2011-12-05T09:55:00.000-06:00

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Larry King:

2011-12-04T17:05:00.000-06:00

I've always been more fascinated by the singer than the song. So my curiosity lies in the billionaire -- not the billions.

Truth Be Told, p. 31

Sarah Schulman:

2011-12-03T14:52:00.001-06:00

Telling victims that their abuser is wrong does not help anything. You have to tell the abuser herself.

Ties That Bind, p. 170

Yashar Ali:

2011-12-02T09:35:00.000-06:00

Even vocal, confident, assertive women are vulnerable to gaslighting. Why? Because women bare the brunt of our neurosis. It is much easier for us to place our emotional burdens on the shoulders of our wives, our female friends, our girlfriends, our female employees, our female colleagues, than for us to impose them on the shoulders of men.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-12-01T09:38:00.000-06:00

Many religious fundamentalists feel under siege by the secular world and harbor a deeply paranoid sense of victimhood. I think of those who turn their sense of victimhood into material and political success and their claims of persecution into strategies of achieving power as Jesus Victims. I don't mean they are victims of Jesus; rather, they claim to be victims for the sake of Jesus, accruing power through the rhetoric of sacrifice and persecution and grasping at conspiracy theories about how the nefarious "World" and all "Those Liberals" are out to do them in.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 33

Steve Jobs:

2011-11-30T11:50:00.000-06:00

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Bruxy Cavey:

2011-11-29T09:28:00.000-06:00

When sinful, broken, hurting people are pleasantly surprised at how accepting we are, and religious people are outraged at how accepting we are, there's a good chance we're starting to live like Jesus.

The End of Religion

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-11-28T10:30:00.002-06:00

All great marketing breakthroughs are evolutions of language.

Evil Plans, p. 99

Sarah Schulman:

2011-11-27T10:43:00.000-06:00

Human beings have the profound duty to intervene when someone else is being victimized, especially if that person asks them to.

Ties That Bind, p. 170

Martin Luther King Jr.:

2011-11-26T10:02:00.000-06:00

The church at times has preserved that which is immoral and unethical. Called to combat social evils, it has remained silent behind stained-glass windows.... How often the church has been an echo rather than a voice, a taillight behind the Supreme Court rather than a headlight guiding men progressively and decisively to higher levels of understanding.

Yashar Ali:

2011-11-25T10:35:00.000-06:00

Those who engage in gaslighting create a reaction -- whether it's anger, frustration, sadness -- in the person they are dealing with. Then, when that person reacts, the gaslighter makes them feel uncomfortable and insecure by behaving as if their feelings aren't rational or normal.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-11-23T09:00:00.000-06:00

Believing in invisible things breeds an inferiority complex among people competing with science for hearts and minds.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 33

Barbra Streisand:

2011-11-22T13:36:00.000-06:00

A man is commanding, a woman is demanding. A man is forceful, a woman is pushy. A man is a perfectionist, a woman is a pain in the ass.

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-11-21T09:36:00.000-06:00

How do you get your stuff on the radar screen of "The Twenty"? By creating brilliant stuff. By creating brilliant stuff that "speaks" to the market in a way it has never been spoken to before. If your stuff is different enough that it changes "the conversation" of your market for the better, other folk will notice, even the Big Boys. "Improve the conversation by improving the language."

Evil Plans, p. 99

Tonetta Landis:

2011-11-20T17:18:00.000-06:00

Accept the reality that all oppression is connected and all forms of injustice reinforce one another.

From "Battle Hymn: A Queer Christian's Guide to More Than Survival"

Sarah Schulman:

2011-11-19T10:35:00.000-06:00

Does anyone ever refuse to consider a manuscript because they have too many heterosexual books in the pipeline?

Ties That Bind, p. 162

Erskine Caldwell:

2011-11-18T10:15:00.000-06:00

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a storyteller.

Yashar Ali:

2011-11-17T09:35:00.000-06:00

A remark intended to shut you down like, "Calm down, you're overreacting," after you just addressed someone else's bad behavior, is emotional manipulation, pure and simple.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-11-16T09:35:00.000-06:00

I wasted ten years or so of my life chasing "success" in Evangelical and other right-wing circles. Other than collecting material for future novels (and memoirs), I regret every moment I spent selling myths to the deluded, or I should say that I regret selling myths to myself and then passing them on to people as deluded as I was.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 30

Ellen DeGeneres:

2011-11-15T11:20:00.000-06:00

I think I’m just very real, and people sense that. They know everything about me. This is a platform that’s probably more powerful than politics, and I think if you have a loud voice, you should use it for good.

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-11-14T09:33:00.000-06:00

So where does your product or service or art fit into other people's narrative? How does telling your story become a survival tool for other people?

Evil Plans, p. 46

David Cameron:

2011-11-13T13:51:00.001-06:00

I once stood before a conservative conference and said it shouldn’t matter whether commitment was between a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and another man ... Five years on, we’re consulting on legalizing gay marriage. And to anyone who has reservations, I say: Yes, it’s about equality, but it’s also about something else: commitment. Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us; that society is stronger when we make vows to each other and support each other. So I don’t support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I’m a conservative.

Sarah Schulman:

2011-11-12T09:27:00.000-06:00

What's fascinating about shunning is that people are so distorted by their own sense of supremacy that they actually believe that you will and should follow their command of silence.

Ties That Bind, p. 151

Annie Dillard:

2011-11-11T09:43:00.000-06:00

Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case.... What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

The Writing Life

Not Just Another BS Night in Music City

2011-11-10T10:51:00.001-06:00

I plan to attend poet/memoirist Nick Flynn's reading at Vanderbilt University this evening. Flynn has authored a number of books, including Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and several poetry collections.

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-11-09T09:30:00.000-06:00

Since the children of professional Christians are raised in what amounts to cocoons and echo chambers, they are often -- literally -- unequipped to do anything except carry on the family business.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 30

Martha Graham:

2011-11-08T09:20:00.000-06:00

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-11-07T09:50:00.000-06:00

My last words will be "thank you."

Evil Plans, p. 175

Tonetta Landis:

2011-11-06T10:12:00.000-06:00

Be indivisible. Your Christian world will insist that you cannot be gay. Your gay world will view you with suspicion because you are a Christian. You will feel the pulling in your chest. When this happens, keep in mind that for any part of you to survive authentically, all of you must survive relentlessly.

From "Battle Hymn: A Queer Christian's Guide to More Than Survival"

Sarah Schulman:

2011-11-05T16:41:00.000-05:00

Truthful lesbian representations teach straight people, through some trickle down theory, to be kinder to gay people.

Ties That Bind, p. 139

Annie Dillard:

2011-11-04T10:12:00.000-05:00

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place.... Something more will arise for later, something better.

The Writing Life

Steve Jobs:

2011-11-03T09:27:00.000-05:00

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-11-02T09:36:00.000-05:00

The Evangelical ghetto is a network of personality cults operating, as far as nepotistic leadership and succession goes, something like North Korea.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 29

Martha Graham:

2011-11-01T10:10:00.000-05:00

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly of the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-10-31T09:53:00.000-05:00

I'm not the world's most talented person at what I do. Neither are you. That doesn't make the gifts we have any less valid.

Evil Plans, p. 174

Tonetta Landis:

2011-10-30T12:10:00.000-05:00

Remember Essex [Hemphill]. Refuse to die by your own hands. Celebrate that you have made it here without being completely broken. Celebrate this with champagne. Acknowledge that you need others critically. Become powerful through laughter and vulnerability and kisses.

From "Battle Hymn: A Queer Christian's Guide to More Than Survival"

Sarah Schulman:

2011-10-29T08:29:00.000-05:00

When people refuse to discuss why they are shunning you, when they give no reason and have no terms of reconciliation, it is because to actually talk about it would be to reveal their own behavior. And their power lies in the ability to command silence about their own behavior. They can only pretend to be neutral if the mechanics of the moment are not discussed. Once sequence and substance are laid out starkly, their responsibility is revealed. Hence, no conversation.

Ties That Bind, p. 122-123

Eric Fromm:

2011-10-28T11:34:00.000-05:00

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Escape from Freedom

Steve Jobs:

2011-10-27T10:50:00.000-05:00

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Frank Schaeffer:

2011-10-26T10:21:00.001-05:00

Sacrificing-For-The-Lord was a pride-filled way of life. No owner of a new home, car, or yacht was ever prouder of his or her venal material possessions than we Schaeffers were of not achieving our fondest dreams.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 25

Hugh MacLeod:

2011-10-25T14:52:00.000-05:00

I never hated a job because of what it took from me -- all jobs take a lot from you, especially the best ones. I hated a job because it never allowed me to give enough to the world.

Evil Plans, p. 174

June Jordan:

2011-10-24T09:33:00.002-05:00

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

Tonetta Landis:

2011-10-23T11:34:00.000-05:00

Consider that some things are more important than stain-glassed certainty. Like humility. Like bent knees. Like a beckoning to do more than survive. Like a beckoning to embrace mystery and to become fertile ground.

From "Battle Hymn: A Queer Christian's Guide to More Than Survival"

Sarah Schulman:

2011-10-22T10:42:00.002-05:00

People who have acted fairly have nothing to hide and therefore don't.

Ties That Bind, p. 114

Aldous Huxley:

2011-10-21T09:35:00.002-05:00

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.