#comin

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better ↗

— Harvey Milk

#innuendo #lie #myth #family

I'll be here when you get back. ↗

— Ally Carter

#family #loyalty #waiting #family

Emotions are messy. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#emotions #messy #family

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom. ↗

— Anthony Venn-Brown

#gay-christian #homosexual #homosexuality #freedom

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#also #anything #arrange #becoming #catholic

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ↗

— John Knowles

#shortcomings #friendship

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#fast lane #lane #life #oncoming #traffic

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#been #being #biggest #combat #coming

It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren't sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new, little kids haven't played outside, as if their moms are afraid someone might snatch them out of their yards and send them off to war. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age