Edmund White Quotes
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Quotes to Explore
-
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
-
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
-
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
-
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
-
The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
-
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
-
During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
-
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
-
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
-
At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
-
I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
-
I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
-
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
-
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
-
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
-
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
-
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
-
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
-
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.
-
What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.
-
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
