#queer

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗

— Herman Melville

#call #certain #his #joke #life

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#east #everywhere #home #i #mixture

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#eye #god #him #hit #i

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#bear #become #bigger #boy #empty

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#eye #feeds #heart #more #my soul

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#eye #help #makeover #meant #our

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids. ↗

— Dan Savage

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #eye #gay

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. ↗

— Dan Savage

#end #enemy #peers #place #queer

But artists aren’t the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played in communities of color; they’re often the first group to gentrify poor and working-class neighborhoods. Harlem is a good example. Gays have moved in and driven up rents, as have renegade young white students, who want to be cool and hip. This is colonization, post-colonial-style. After all, the people who are “sent back” to recover the territory are always those who don’t mind associating with the colored people! And it’s a double bind, because some of these people could be allies. Some gay white men are proactive about racism, even while being entrepreneurial. But in the end, they take spaces, redo them, sell them for a certain amount of money, while the people who have been there are displaced. And in some cases, the people of color who are there are perceived as enemies by white newcomers. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#neo-colonization #queer #men

A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all? ↗

— Charles Dickens

#grammar