Pride: A Celebration In Quotes

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, this book offers inspiring words of wisdom on loving yourself as you truly are.

 

These thoughtfully selected quotations are the perfect way to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the first Pride march. Taken from throughout history and from a variety of voices, they celebrate everything the LGBTQ+ community has achieved, looking at inclusivity across the board and reminding us that love is one of the world’s greatest powers.

Quotes include:

 

“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.” —Barack Obama

 

“I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased.” —Laverne Cox

 

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jun 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781454935612

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PRIDE

A CELEBRATION

IN QUOTES

Edited by Caitlyn McNeill

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Cover and interior design by Scott Russo

CONTENTS

Pride

Love

Courage

Hope

Notes

Authors’ List

About the Editor

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

—E. E. Cummings

I love you all and, last but certainly not least, my L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. family. . . . The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

—Lena Waithe

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

—Brené Brown

When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

—Arnie Kantrowitz,

writer, professor, and gay activist

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It’s nice out here, you know?

—Elton John

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

—André Gide, Autumn Leaves

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

—E. E. Cummings

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

—Armistead Maupin

The only thing wrong with me was that I thought there was something wrong with me.

—Courtney Act,

renowned drag performer

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

—Walt Whitman

Those are all just roles you forced me to play. Under all these lives I’ve lived something else has been growing. I’ve evolved into something new. And I have one last role to play. Myself.

—Dolores Abernathy

(Evan Rachel Wood),

Westworld

It wasn’t an option for me to be closeted or to keep it to myself. Sky’s blue, grass is green. Can’t fight it.

—Jonathan Van Ness

Just be you, and that’s going to be so much better than wishing to be anything else.

—Angel Haze,

hip-hop artist

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be.

—Janet Mock

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

—Mary Dunbar

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and to mold yourself into shapes that you just shouldn’t be in.

—Amandla Stenberg

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

—Oscar Wilde

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

—Thaddeus Golas

Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.

—André Gide

I, Mabel Hampton, have been a lesbian all my life, for 82 years, and