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  • Love is love is love (and other inspirational words)

    With all the celebrations, let’s not forget the fights of the past and of the present.  And still, we must fight. Here are some quotes to keep you continually inspired during this month of Pride and after.

     

    “Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging — that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong — is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing.” Laverne Cox

    “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.”–Jason Collins, first openly gay athlete in U.S. pro sports

    When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”–Barack Obama

    “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.”–Rita Mae Brown

    “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an asshole.”–Morgan Freeman

    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”–Harvey Fierstein

    “Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour–and in the oddest places!–for the lack of it.”–Author James Baldwin

    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Audre Lorde

    “A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live”  ― Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio

    “Without community, there is no liberation.” -Audre Lorde

    “The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.”–Advice columnist Cassandra Duffy

    “Being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.” – Janelle Monáe