Top 29 Patrick Califia Quotes
#1. Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool
Patrick Califia-Rice
#2. There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail, backsliding begins. Or totalitarianism.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#3. The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.
Patrick Califia
#4. When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
Andy Behrman
#5. This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.
Patrick Califia
#6. Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
Alicia Keys
#7. S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations. ... the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off' ...
Patrick Califia-Rice
#8. If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.
Patrick Califia
#9. Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.
Henry Vaughan
#10. When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.
Patrick Califia
#11. When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.
Patrick Califia
#12. Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.
Patrick Califia
#14. We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.
Stephanie Mills
#15. A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.
Patrick Califia
#16. By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.
Patrick Califia
#17. The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.
Carl Yastrzemski
#19. Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#20. SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#21. All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.
Rajneesh
#22. She appreciated the fact that the wolf did not caper, bow down, yelp, or slaver on her, in the slavish and inconsiderate way of dogs. The wolf was no whore for man's approval. He fed himself.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#24. As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.
Patrick Califia
#25. God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
Muhammad Ali
#26. Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers ... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.
Patrick Califia
#27. My body has become
another country
and I feel like an unemployed
illegal alien
how will I survive
where I do not belong
I belong with you
Patrick Califia-Rice
#28. If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.
Patrick Califia-Rice
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