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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth is a matter of the imagination []. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round and real than pearls are. But both are sensitive.
— Ursula Le Guin
The only lasting truth is change.
— Octavia butler
The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.
— Johanna Hedva
Playfulness is, in part, an openness to being a fool, which is a combination of not worrying about competence, not being self-important, not taking norms as sacred, and finding ambiguity and double edges as a source of wisdom and delight.
— Maria Lugones
What’s more collective than autobiography? Nothing.
— Edouard Louis
Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.
— Ocean Vuong
Sculpture is about changing the shape of a material, and in social sculpture, the materials are the ideas and relationships of a community.
— Pedro Reyes
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
— Audrey Lorde
I´M ONLY TAKING BACK WHAT WAS NEVER MINE TO ACCESS.
— Parisa Madani
Self-preservation is an act of political warfare.
— Audre Lorde
The weird set of experiences that we call childhood stands outside adult logics of time and space. The time of the child, then, like the time of the queer, is always already over and still to come.
— Jack Halberstam
Les actions que nous menons en pleine lucidité ne sont que des îlots dans un archipel de rêves.
— Paul B. Preciado
The new tribalism is about being part of but never subsumed by a group, never losing individuality to the group nor losing the group to the individual. The new tribalism is about working together to create new “stories” of identity and culture, to envision diverse futures. It’s about rethinking our narratives of history, ances- try, and even of reality itself.
— Gloria Anzaldua
I can see how the aversion to dependancy in modern industrialized societies was formed and leads to struggles in connecting. Many believe this disconnect to be at the root of pain and suffering.
— Zinzi Buchanan
i’m not sentimental about writers. But I’m inclined to think that most writers, and most other artists, too, are primarily motivated in their desperate vocation by a desire to find and to separate truth from the complex of lies and evasions they live in, and i think that this impulse is what makes their work not so much a profession as a vocation, a true “calling”.
— Tennessee Williams
envy is the only sin that gives no pleasure
The organization of the entire economy toward the ‘better’ life has become the major enemy of the goodlife.
— Orla O'Donovan
If we're gonna heal, let it be glorious.
— Beyoncé
One of the biggest lessons of my transition is that I will not always understand why something works for me. So the first step was not analysis but celebration. I realised I was a woman and jumped on that gender-bus screaming ‘DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE’ because at last I could see my direction. I could see where all this femme experimenting (or ‘femsperimenting’) was taking me. If you yourself are questioning your gender I wholeheartedly recommend following your pleasure rather than your logic. It was fulfilling in a way I hadn’t known before.
— Sal Aitch
The key problem with modern professionals is their claim to a monopoly on what they do.
— Ivan Illich
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
Cure is a medical intervention, but healing is becoming whole.
— Anna Halprin
We learn love through recognition. When u give me recognition, when u see me as i am, the word respect comes from a latin root meaning to look at. So when u see me and you affirm me that’s part of allowing me to be a subject in the world.
— Bell Hooks
Children cannot be what they cannot see.
— Maria Wright
The anchor is the oldest symbol of hope.
— Adriene Mishler
To talk from one’s shame is to affirm not fitting; to the rules, the norms, the musts.
— Edouard Louis
I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden to me before.
— Oscar Wilde
It’s proven that lesbians give back their books to the library late.
— Yvonne Rainer