"Bieber has a legitimate claim on the social media crown (regarding Lady Gaga, Bieber is dismissive: “She didn’t have online fans before she had mainstream fans”)."

Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist

Child, sit DOWN.

"The only reason “coming out” is still even a thing is because it’s presumed that people are straight until they tell us otherwise. “The Other must identify itself, or else it is decieving us” is a fucked up, dangerous idea."

Anon

(Source: victor-the-richter)

"Why do they think ‘fat dyke’ is an insult? To me, it means… I’m gonna eat fried chicken and pussy. That’s why I brought wet naps."

Margaret Cho

(Source: liquorinthefront)

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“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.” James Carville

Except that’d be insulting Alabama. 

(Source: motherjones)

"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X

I’ve always found it interesting how activists look up to Malcolm X as a role model, but not Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices, and inequities."

Yuri Kochiyama

"Identity only becomes an issue when it is in crisis, when something assumed to be fixed, coherent and stable is displaced by the experience of doubt and uncertainty."

Kobena Mercer

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction"

John F. Kennedy

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance."

bell hooks

"I said anything I wanted because I don’t believe in children. I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe that there’s a demarcation. ‘Oh you mustn’t tell them that. You mustn’t tell them that.’ You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true you tell them."

Maurice Sendak