Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes

Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

Anthony Venn-Brown

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Idea
  • Strangers
  • I Want

• Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Taken
  • Leader

• By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Air

• If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Model

• We get educated out of creativity.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Creativity

• I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Reading

• Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

  

  Brendan Morrison
  • Cry
  • Hockey
  • Onions

• You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

  

  Susan Howatch
  • Angry
  • Anger
  • Damage

• It's awfully nice to look out there and see everybody here tonight. I'm very humbled.

  

  Willie Davis
  • See
  • Tonight
  • Humbled

• He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Women
  • Love
  • Attracted

• I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

  

  Arthur Bradford
  • Change
  • Stories
  • Computer

• It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Value
  • First
  • Impression

• There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Fear
  • Thing
  • Asshole

• The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Read
  • Gospel
  • Opposes

• When will the African people unite? When will the African people come together? Europeans, Americans getting stronger every day, And there is disunity among the African people

  

  Majek Fashek
  • People
  • Stronger
  • African

• Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Allies
  • Closet
  • Homophobia