“There is no happy ending glow of the Civil Rights Movement.”

“Donald Trump may well bring on an irrevocable climate catastrophe.”

“2016, I’ve never been so scared or so fearless.”

“The objective was to not call attention to himself”

“Liar misspelled. Exactly what I would have expected.”

“I want my ashes to dance, to root, to get kicked along and blown about”

“The real question: if we didn’t have sex, would you still love me?”

“It sounds like you don’t know if it was consensual or not.”

“I think of parents grieving stolen breaths of their children”

“around the age of twenty years old, the abuse began”

“Winter is a window. Winter is a portal. Winter is death.”

“white male privilege is not about demonization. It’s about responsibility”

“Ramone is an undocumented worker in the United States”

“Nobody in my whole family ever, ever spoke of Uncle again.”

“She clips them to her hip with a carabineer, weapon sheathed”

“anything I do in this body feels like a chore. This body is a chore”

“All out. No in.”

“the complacency of the straight world during the first years of the epidemic”

“It’s difficult to see evolution when it’s happening…”

“I was pressed into reading out crazy parts of Mark Twain stories”