#y

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. ↗

— Bono

#be different #different #even #great #great thing

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ↗

— Bono

#elvis #enemy #god #happens #left

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#eye #fear #handle #hard #having

I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#good #happy #i #i feel #i feel like

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#because #betraying #body #felt #horrifying

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. ↗

— Bono

#god #moves #never #pace #paradigm

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

#i #i think #knew #madness #marriage

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. ↗

— Bono

#away #cannot #christian #walk #you

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard