Tillett Quotes & Sayings

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It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget. — IO Tillett Wright

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. — Bill Gates

Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye my toil more, when shall happiness find you? Ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? And if ye suffer no singers among you, where shall be the fruits of your toil? Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. Were not death more pleasing? — H.P. Lovecraft

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves. — IO Tillett Wright

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people. — IO Tillett Wright

Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you. — Camron Wright

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country. — IO Tillett Wright

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself. — IO Tillett Wright

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. — Gloria Steinem

You have a part of me that no one, and I mean no one, has ever had before. — J.B. McGee

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. — Paulo Coelho

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about. — Liza Dalby

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo. — IO Tillett Wright

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. — Ben Tillett

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy. — IO Tillett Wright

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on. — IO Tillett Wright

Imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the — John Stuart Mill

For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of. — IO Tillett Wright

The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language. — Nina Power

Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization. — IO Tillett Wright

Things only hurt more when you can see them. — Victoria Schwab