Amber Hollibaugh Quotes
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No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.
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I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.
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For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.
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In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.
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I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.
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I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
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Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.
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I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.
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Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.