Quotes About Queerness

#1. However some things may look queer to you, remember that the world is a beautiful rainbow with many colours! No colours, no rainbow! No rainbow, no beauty! Long live the queerness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.

Aldous Huxley

#3. I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

Lewis Thomas

#4. two - queerness and toxicity - have an affinity. They truck with negativity, marginality, and subject-object confusions; they have, arguably, an affective intensity; they challenge heteronormative understandings of intimacy. Both

Mel Y. Chen

#5. My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#6. The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Richard Dawkins

#7. My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. To me, "queerness" is an alienation from a heteronormative code that governs bodies, genders, and their processes - sexuality, birth, death, and inheritance - in order to preserve social, economic, and political power for those who have it [and] to continue it into future generations.

Kazim Ali

#9. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

L. Frank Baum

#10. If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow wordlessly generating volumes of desire like some kind of sublanguage that makes you want to splash into it even with all its tensions.

David Wojnarowicz

#12. Albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#13. You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

L. Frank Baum

#14. You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.

Jay Michaelson

#16. We Queerfolk are big-picture types. You have to be, to see how the Queerness of the World works itself through everything.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. Blake is a ready-made patron saint for those wanting to elevate their marginality, dissent, and queerness into strength. The relative futility of Blake's battle during his lifetime make him all the more attractive. In the intertextual heritage of queer art, Blake has become an honorary icon.

Andrew Elfenbein

#18. Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

Don Young

#19. In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.

Anne Bishop

#20. What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

Deb Caletti

#21. Logan had been there earlier and refused to leave, but Mason made him go. He wanted alone time with me when I woke. He said he pulled Boyfriend Rank. It would've been nice to see Logan, but I understood.

Tijan

#22. It takes tremendous courage to change and grow up to be what we want to be.

Debasish Mridha

#23. All stories are, in some form, prayers.

Brian Doyle

#24. In the end, how [is] anyone any different from a 'normal' person? If you love someone, you love them. It doesn't matter where they came from or if they're a boy or a girl, or if you fight, or if they're weird, or if they find it difficult to communicate with you; you just fucking love them.

Abigail Tarttelin

#25. You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah ... ' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

Ned Vizzini

#26. I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#27. A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#28. It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Abigail Tarttelin

#29. I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Mary Harris Jones

#30. Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Wilfrid

#32. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

#33. It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word
on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

Epictetus

#34. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Norman Vincent Peale

#35. If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

Condoleezza Rice

#36. There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#37. The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick